Re: realplayer installer and frozen

2000-03-16 Thread David Webb
On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 01:26:17PM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: I tried the woody installer on a potato system. It installed realplayer, but it doesn't seem to work. No messages or core dump--nothing happens. I also tried installing the tarball and installing the .deb created by running alien

Re: realplayer installer and frozen

2000-03-16 Thread Joey Hess
David Webb wrote: I had the same problem. Installing libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1 fixed it on my system. I cannot reproduce this. Works fine for me without that library installed. You also have to make sure the REALPLAYER_HOME environment variable is set correctly. Nor can I reproduce this. --

Re: realplayer installer and frozen

2000-03-16 Thread David Webb
On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 01:36:49AM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: David Webb wrote: I had the same problem. Installing libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1 fixed it on my system. I cannot reproduce this. Works fine for me without that library installed. You also have to make sure the REALPLAYER_HOME

Re: realplayer installer and frozen

2000-03-16 Thread Bob Nielsen
I checked and REALPLAYER_HOME was set to the G2 directory (from an old manual installation). I changed it to /usr/lib/RealPlayer7 and realplayer started working. Then I deleted REALPLAYER_HOME environmental variable altogether and it still worked. This would indicate that it isn't required, but

Re: realplayer installer and frozen

2000-03-15 Thread Joey Hess
Lars Wirzenius wrote: I agree with Branden: remove the installer from potato. The problem that I forgot to mention is that anyone who upgrades from slink to potato w/o upgrading realplayer, and had realplayer installed via the installer in slink, is going to find that the old realplayer they

Re: realplayer installer and frozen

2000-03-15 Thread Alex Yukhimets
On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 07:09:31PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: Lars Wirzenius wrote: I agree with Branden: remove the installer from potato. The problem that I forgot to mention is that anyone who upgrades from slink to potato w/o upgrading realplayer, and had realplayer installed via the

Re: realplayer installer and frozen

2000-03-15 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 01:00:59AM -0500, Alex Yukhimets wrote: On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 07:09:31PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: Lars Wirzenius wrote: I agree with Branden: remove the installer from potato. The problem that I forgot to mention is that anyone who upgrades from slink to

Re: realplayer installer and frozen

2000-03-15 Thread Jordi
On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 07:09:31PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: Lars Wirzenius wrote: I agree with Branden: remove the installer from potato. The problem that I forgot to mention is that anyone who upgrades from slink to potato w/o upgrading realplayer, and had realplayer installed via the

realplayer installer and frozen

2000-03-14 Thread Joey Hess
The realplayer installer package in potato is broken and useless because Real has, in their infinite wisdom, removed version 6.x of the program from their download sites now that they have a beta of 7.0. (Bug #60323.) So the installer can't install anything. The package either needs to be pulled

Re: realplayer installer and frozen

2000-03-14 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 05:47:41PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: The realplayer installer package in potato is broken and useless because Real has, in their infinite wisdom, removed version 6.x of the program from their download sites now that they have a beta of 7.0. (Bug #60323.) So the

Re: realplayer installer and frozen

2000-03-14 Thread SCOTT FENTON
Calm down man. The men in the white coats will be here soon. Branden Robinson wrote: On Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 05:47:41PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: The realplayer installer package in potato is broken and useless because Real has, in their infinite wisdom, removed version 6.x of the program