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] > > But if you try to download it: > > The requested URL > /debian/dists/potato/contrib/binary-i386/net/realplayer_7.0.2.2.deb > was not found on this server. > > FTP-ing in to ftp.debian.org shows that it's not in the relevant > directory, and it's not listed in: > /debian/dists/potato/contrib/binary-i386/Packages > > Trying to use apt-get results in: > > ohlone:# apt-get install realplayer > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > Package realplayer has no available version, but exists in the database. > This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and > never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents > of sources.list > E: Package realplayer has no installation candidate > > I know it was available just a couple of days ago since I used it to > install realplayer on a different machine. I had to struggle with > debconf a little to make it work, but it did eventually. > If you can find the realplayer_7.0.2.2.deb you can get RealPlayer to work with the rp8_linux20_lib6_i386_cs1_rpm that you download from the real.com site.
cp rp8_linux20_lib6_i386_cs1_rpm rp7_linux20_lib6_i386_b2_rpm This is what the version 7 installer expects. dpkg -i realplayer_7.0.2.2.deb This will fail but puts the install files in /var/lib/dpkg/info Edit realplayer.postinst and realplayer.prerm and change all RealPlayer7 references to RealPlayer8. Run dpkg again and it should work. I actually used apt-get but if the package is gone then I assume a dpkg approach will work. Hope this helps, Eric
