I think what you have to do is download the rpm separately and tell
the installer where it is -- then the installer does what alien does
and its ok. But I did put the thing on hold by going into dselect and
doing it and now everything is ok.
You should certainly be able to go into dselect and put it on hold.
on Sun, 30 Dec 2001 22:04:05 -0600 (CST) Cheryl Homiak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I posted about this once before both here and on a debian list, but since
> i got no response and it's been a while, thought I would try again.
> I have trplayer_1.2.0-1_i386.deb installed on my system. I also have
> realplayer8.0-2_i386.deb which I got from using alien with
> RealPlayer-8.0-1.i386.rpm.
> This works just fine.
> However, I am using debian woody and there is a package called realplayer,
> which isn't really realplayer but just an installer for realplayer. You
> are supposed to go and download a realplayer package,
> rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs2_rpm, tell the installer where the package is,
> and have it installed. Whenever I do "apt-get upgraede" debian tries to
> implement this installer. Whether I say I want to use the installer now,
> it undoes my current installation so that i have to re-install realplayer,
> not a long process since I keep the .deb package right on my system to
> re-install but still a pain. I've tried totally uninstalling my package
> and letting the installer do its thing; I'd be glad to go download the
> other file to stop this problem, but even when I do that I get told that
> errors were encountered and the package (just the installer; it never gets
> as far as asking me where the realplayer package itself is) is left
> neither fully installed or un-installed.
> At first I thought I had messed something up by installing a different
> realplayer package, though purging it should have allowed me to start over
> and install using the installer, but in setting up a computer for friends,
> I tried to use the installer without ever having put my alien-made package
> on the system, and dpkg still returned error code 1 and left it neither
> fully installed or un-installed.
> I want to be able to do one of two things:
> (1) have the installer install the realplayer package it wants, which I
> will gladly download if the system would ever let me get that far;
> or
> (2) get a hold put on this particular package so that debian doesn't keep
> trying to uninstall my working system and leave me stuck with a
> non-working installer.
> I have checked the dependencies for this installer and supposedly I have
> everything that should be there for it to work.
> Any help would be appreciated.
> I am especially unhappy about this situation because my friends for whom I
> am setting up a computer are newbies and aren't going to like the hassle
> of continually re-installing realplayer!
> Thanks.
>
>
>
> --
> Cheryl
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