Re: realplayer in stable

2001-04-25 Thread Bud Rogers
On Wednesday 25 April 2001 18:25, Jim McCloskey wrote: > I downloaded the RPM version of rp8, used alien to convert it, and > installed it with dpkg. All seems fine. Do you see any noticeable improvement over rp7? I use 7 to catch some college classes as streaming video. rp7 seems to lose its

Re: realplayer in stable

2001-04-25 Thread Jim McCloskey
Thanks to all of those who helped sort this out. I checked the bug report log and found that a bug had been filed (by Joey Hess) against the installer package for realplayer 8 (this was the debconf problem). There was also a reply from the maintainer saying that he planned to put a fixed version

Re: Realplayer in stable

2001-04-25 Thread JC Portlock
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 m

Re: Realplayer in stable

2001-04-25 Thread Jim McCloskey
|> 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 bee

Re: Realplayer in stable

2001-04-25 Thread Eric Richardson
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 d

Re: Realplayer in stable

2001-04-25 Thread Angus D Madden
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

Realplayer in stable

2001-04-25 Thread Jim McCloskey
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 /debi