On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 07:20:38PM -0500, Benjamin Sher wrote: > > Dear Roberto: > > Thanks for the tip. My choice is to either install RealPlayer as a .bin file > or as an RPM (or, rather, after converting it to Deb by using alien). Which > one is preferable? > Personally, I prefer to install .deb packages. However, there is no telling what sorts of post-install configuration RealPlayer needs. That may or may not translate well into a .deb package.
> Finally, if I use the .bin file, should I consider using "stow" to install it > so that I can uninstall it, if necessary, in the future? > That is one way. I happen to like stow and find it very handy. For external software that I may not update frequently, it works quite well. Just watch out that Real hasn't hard coded some paths that require it to be installed in a particular place. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr
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