On 24-Jul-2000 Joey Hess wrote: > Pollywog wrote: >> I uninstalled the RealPlayer package I had installed with the Debian >> install >> package. I made a new Deb package using Alien and the RPM package I >> downloaded and it works much better. > > Please degine "much better". As the author of both alien and the > realplayer installer package, my feelings arn't hurt that you chose one > over the other, but I am very puzzled how alien could do a better job. > When I installed the Debian package that is used to install what I downloaded from www.real.com, Netscape could not see the plugin, for some reason. This was not a problem when I downloaded the rpm from real.com and then used Alien to make a deb from it.
Now I am able to actually use the RealPlayer plugin on Netscape. -- Andrew
