I'm running potato and had the same question.....after wondering what to do with the rp7 installer since the only version available was rp8.
I searched freshmeat for RealPlayer, was linked to the RP's main site, and downloaded rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs1.bin from there. I changed the perms to make it executable and voila. It installed itself. Almost too easy, but both Netscape and Konqueror now handle the streams seamlessly. May not be the *debian* way, but if you want RealPlayer as I did, well, you do what you gotta do. On Wednesday 25 April 2001 10:20 am, Jim McCloskey wrote: > |> 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 -- 73, JC Portlock KE6UME [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 14481033 =========================================== Professionals built the Titanic, but Amateurs built the Ark. =========================================== Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
