|> 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.

Except that realplayer version 8 seems to have been available at least
for a brief period in stable, since that's the version that's
installed (I just checked) on my other machine:

Package: realplayer
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: contrib/net
Installed-Size: 144
Maintainer: Brian Russo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Version: 8.0.1
Replaces: rvplayer
Provides: rvplayer
Depends: debconf (>= 0.2.0), xlib6g | xlibs, libc6, cpio
Suggests: netscape
Conflicts: rvplayer
Description: Real Player (installer)

And from the changelog:

realplayer (8.0.1) stable unstable; urgency=medium

  * I'm adopting this package (no wnpp was filed).
  * taggart's patch (Closes: #60426, #83038, #83227 #85823)
  * Changed dependencies for XF4 (Closes: #82988)
  * New version for potato (Closes: #74741, #81566)
  * Also (Closes: #74326, #64456, #76487, #79638, #46401)
  * Why not.. added menu hint (Closes: #82332)
  * Removed dh_suidregister

 -- Brian Russo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  Thu, 22 Feb 2001 20:11:38 -1000

This is on a pure potato (2.2r3) system.

Weird,

J

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