Re: realplayer 10 debian package
You've got the mimetypes, etc... just reinstall.
{This is pretty easy though:
http://www.real.com/ }
On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 09:18 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> 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.
>
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