Benjamin, >1) You refer to "security fixes". Which ones? Am I supposed to download >them? Well, these are the standard Mandrake updates from their security updates page. Since the CD release I count a good 114 updated packages on my system! I sure as hell hope you keep your box updated. Subscribing to Mandrake's security-announce list will give you a head's up on these fixes as they become available. >2) Why is the --ignorearch argument not even mentioned in my Linux >Reference book (Linux in a Nutshell, 2nd edition)? No doubt because it would take a whole book to cover RPM completely. A man rpm does show the command. >Does RealPlayer8.rpm install the plugins correctly and will they play >embedded files correctly. No problem here. I just installed it as root, and it automatically installed all the necessary files in both root's home dir and the user's home dir. It also left both a mimeinstall.log and plugininstall.log files in all the user's home dirs. I was just at Real's unix forum ... to get there you have to start the RP8 Basic selection, but there's *no* need to enter your name or email address to read the posts. Just select Unix and a new page will pop-up on which there is a link to the "community supported Unix forum". You are correct that the Real support people said to use the --ignorearch switch ... the reason being that they screwed up the rpm: they set the arch flag for i686 and compiled against i386. This info was in the second thread "no i386 file to download". But elswhere, and I can't quite find it anymore, I'm certain that they said they fixed the RPM. Regardless, I did not use the --ignorearch swith and all went fine. Only one caveat: Although I was able to play ram and wav files, I was not able to play pls files .... frankly I didn't know about these untill I went to www.live365.com. This was fixed by going into Netscape preferences => applications and adding: Description: audio/x-scpls Mime type: audio/x-scpls Suffixes: pls Application: /usr/lib/RealPlayer8/realplay "%u" So now, evething I've tried works ... sound, movie traillers, etc. Also, if you do an rpm --test blah and it doesn't work, I doubt there would be any harm in trying the --ignorearch switch ... the rpm is built for the i386 architecture ... it's just the arch flag they fudged. Peace Dave. --------- 27-Mar-2001 22:04:05 ---------
