On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 09:29:14AM -0700, Jim McCloskey wrote: > > Does anyone know what has happened to the realplayer installer package > in stable? > > I believe it's supposed to be in /contrib/net/ and the package search > engine at the debian site says it exists: > > Package: realplayer 7.0.2.2 [contrib] >
couple things about that package - 1. the version (7) of realplayer was unsupported by real player. To get the rpm required by the realplayer deb, you had to figure out the url of where to download the rpm from real because it was no longer available on their website. 2. if you were able to dig the version 7 rpm out of the real download site, it would install fine, but as soon as you started realplayer a dialog would anounce that the version had expired and the realplayer would exit. of course, if you right-clicked to kill the dialog, you could still use the player. i think that the format for real audio/video has changed though, because i couldn't find any audio or video that would run on it (may have been because i was behind a proxy and screwed up teh settings). they may have just removed the deb because it wasn't working any more. unfortunately, the version 8 deb needs X 4.0, and i'm not as brave as i used to be about unstable. g
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