On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 09:57 -0500, Paul wrote: > I'm new to Debian and have been googling to find out what most users are > doing to install realplayer-10. I notice real.com is updating this > player with some regularity, as they bug-fix and make improvements. I'm > glad to see this support for linux. But, I read that they aren't forth > coming with the distribution license for Debian to be able to distribute > it directly, so I guess there won't be a debian package available soon. > > I also found that the older realplayer-8 had a debian-installer package > that someone made, but the link to that was dead. > > So, now I installed the 10.0.0.297-20040731 version by downloading the > rpm, then using alien to convert it, and installing it. But, this > failed to install the mime-types and menu files, so it wasn't so good. > Then, I used alien to create the build directory, (alien -g > RealPlayer10GOLD.rpm), and edited the postinst and postrm scripts to add > 'RPM_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local' to define the directories to search to > install the mimetypes and desktop config files. Then, I built it using > 'fakeroot debian/rules binary'. This package seems to work ok. > > But, now I see they've come out with RealPlayer-10.0.2 in December, so > am at it again. > > Anyone have a better solution? I install RP10 directly from real.com, and it works perfectly. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail. "...always eager to extend a friendly claw"
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