On 12/05/05, Urs Schuetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just tried to install mplayer with the "real" USE-flag set, which > results in additional installation of RealPlayer-10.0.4. > > However, the installation is not working, as there is an error > before the download of RealPlayer: > > Here is what �emerge mplayer� does: > >>> emerge (1 of 2) media-video/realplayer-10.0.4 to / > >>> Downloading > >>> https://helixcommunity.org/download.php/1145/RealPlayer-10.0.4.750-20050401.i586.rpm > > The URL syntatically wrong! > > !!! Couldn't download RealPlayer-10.0.4.750-20050401.i586.rpm. Aborting. > > (sorry for the long lines!) > > The download url is correct, I can manually download the > RealPlayer rpm. > > My questions: > > Where expects portage the downloaded RealPlayer to be? Can it > just be moved there, or has something else to be done? > > What means "The URL syntatically wrong!", and why spits portage > something like this at me, even if the URL is working? > > Somebody else has this or is it just me? > > Does it need a bug report or not? And where? RealPlayer or > Portage?
By default, the downloaded files are in /usr/portage/distfiles, you can manually download your file, place in that directory, and run emerge again. HTH, -- Joe -- Money can't buy everything. Sometimes money can't even buy a gun... -- [email protected] mailing list
