Re: Realplayer in stable

[Eric Richardson <eric@milagrosoft.com>]

Jim McCloskey wrote:
> 
> Does anyone know what has happened to the realplayer installer package
> in stable?
> 
> I believe it's supposed to be in /contrib/net/ and the package search
> engine at the debian site says it exists:
> 
>    Package: realplayer 7.0.2.2 [contrib]
> 
> But if you try to download it:
> 
>   The requested URL
>   /debian/dists/potato/contrib/binary-i386/net/realplayer_7.0.2.2.deb
>   was not found on this server.
> 
> FTP-ing in to ftp.debian.org shows that it's not in the relevant
> directory, and it's not listed in:
> /debian/dists/potato/contrib/binary-i386/Packages
> 
> Trying to use apt-get results in:
> 
> ohlone:# apt-get install realplayer
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Package realplayer has no available version, but exists in the database.
> This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and
> never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents
> of sources.list
> E: Package realplayer has no installation candidate
> 
> I know it was available just a couple of days ago since I used it to
> install realplayer on a different machine. I had to struggle with
> debconf a little to make it work, but it did eventually.
>
 
If you can find the realplayer_7.0.2.2.deb you can get RealPlayer to
work with the rp8_linux20_lib6_i386_cs1_rpm that you download from the
real.com site.

cp rp8_linux20_lib6_i386_cs1_rpm rp7_linux20_lib6_i386_b2_rpm

This is what the version 7 installer expects.

dpkg -i realplayer_7.0.2.2.deb

This will fail but puts the install files in
/var/lib/dpkg/info

Edit realplayer.postinst and realplayer.prerm and change all RealPlayer7
references to RealPlayer8.

Run dpkg again and it should work. I actually used apt-get but if the
package is gone then I assume a dpkg approach will work.

Hope this helps,
Eric