Hello Graham, There is no reason other than ignorance that I did not use apt-get. In fact I did use apt-get in some of my attempts.
With all this help I should soon have real player working again soon. Thanks everyone. Michael ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ On August 9, 2004 05:29 pm, s. keeling wrote: > Incoming from GRAHAM MONK: > > From: "s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Incoming from Michael Walters: > > > > can not open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm". > > > > > > ..^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > > > > > I'd guess this is the error. Have you installed any rpm's before? > > > If not, you probably haven't done "rpm --initdb" > > > > > > > I am running a libranet debian linux desktop. > > > > Doesn't Libranet as a Debian based distro use Apt-get? I know you > > can use apt4rpm on a rpm based distro to get the apt functionality > > but didn't know the reverse was true. > > Libranet is Debian based, and yes you can use rpm's on it, both with > rpm and with alien (which converts $blah to .deb). > > I installed Applix from their CDROM using rpm. It worked fine. You > can't push this too far, but it does work. > > I would have suggested he apt-get realplayer, but I assumed he had some > reason not to (latest-version-itis). _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
