Re: Real Player for potato
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 04:54:44PM +1000, mdevin@ozemail.com.au wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 06:24:10AM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote:
> > It naturally want to upgrade your packages if you put in a deb uri
> > that points to all updated packages. No need for the automatic power
> > screwdriver if all you want to do is to hammer a single nail into
> > the wall.
> >
> > > So, is it fine to just run the installer rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs2.bin
> > > I have already downloaded from real.com, or is there some better way to
> > > not upset my stable potato machine?
If you do not want to upset the box, then don't point sources.list to
unstable. Not that it is unrunnable, unstable or testing, but it is
a full upgrade, which should always be done very carefully. A few new
packages may warrant an upgrade, but the upgrade wants more attention
than a simle install of a few packages.
> > Manually download the realplayer installer deb from the debian archive.
> > Install the deb manually with dpkg -i. It will look for the realplayer
> > bin thing and unpack it and set it up.
> >
> I tried that already and got the following messages:
>
> # dpkg -i realplayer_8.0.5_i386.deb
> Selecting previously deselected package realplayer.
> (Reading database ... 23682 files and directories currently installed.)
> Unpacking realplayer (from .../realplayer_8.0.5_i386.deb) ...
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of realplayer:
> realplayer depends on debconf (>= 0.9.53); however:
> Version of debconf on system is 0.2.80.17.
> dpkg: error processing realplayer (--install):
> dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> realplayer
>
> So, it seems that the woody realplayer.deb installer depends on the
> woody debconf version. Hmmm. Is this what you meant?
This is what I hoped would not be the case. The new debconf in turn
depends on perl 5.6.1, you don't want to "dpkg -i" with all that.
> What gives?
A dead end, unless you can switch to four wheel mode and upgrade to
testing or unstable. Beware that there is sometimes an unexpected bump
in that road, like weird artifacts in libc related packages.
Cheers,
Joost
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