Re: [PLUG] RealPlayer [was: Mandrake 8.1?]

[Bill Jonas <bill@billjonas.com>]

On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 09:22:06AM -0500, Nicholas Vettese wrote:
> Yes.  You can only use Version7 of Realplayer on Linux.  And then when you 
> go to run it, it wants to upgrade.  Go figure.

Actually...

~$ ls -l downloads/rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs2_rpm; dpkg -l realplayer
-rw-r--r--    1 bj       bj        4929328 Jun 16  2001
downloads/rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs2_rpm
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name           Version        Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii  realplayer     8.0.6          Real Player (installer)

(The Debian package is just a wrapper install script for the .rpm that
Real provides.)

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