Re: realplayer in stable

[Jim McCloskey <mcclosk@ling.ucsc.edu>]

Thanks to all of those who helped sort this out. I checked the bug
report log and found that a bug had been filed (by Joey Hess) against
the installer package for realplayer 8 (this was the debconf problem).

There was also a reply from the maintainer saying that he planned to
put a fixed version into proposed-updates. That doesn't seem to have
happened yet.

So at present there is no installer package for either rp7 or rp8 in
potato (despite the fact that the packages database at debian.org says
that rp7 is available).

I downloaded the RPM version of rp8, used alien to convert it, and
installed it with dpkg. All seems fine.

My thanks to all who helped,

Jim