Cannot convert RealPlayerGOLD11 from rpm to deb using Alien

On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 12:14:59 +0000 (UTC)
"Keith D. Lee" wrote:

All:
Here is the error message that I am getting -- Unpacking of
'RealPlayer11GOLD.rpm' failed at /usr/share/perl5/
Alien/Package/Rpm.pm line 168. Any ideas about what is wrong?

Sure, you aren't using a .deb, you're trying to rebuild an .rpm into
one. I've found that it seldom works as advertised.

Use this instead:
<http://europe.real.com/realplayer/o...rsions>

Worked fine for me just now.

Cybe R. Wizard
N remmbr, I iz 1337 n U R n00b, so STFU, kk? Do a furum srch. Ttly.
Lolcat Bible <http://www.lolcatbible.com>
Ecclesiastes 5, 2

CW:
Didn't work for me. Here is the output from Ubuntu Software --

Selecting previously unselected package realplay:i386.
(Reading database ...
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(Reading database ... 100%
(Reading database ... 192871 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking realplay:i386 (from .../Downloads/RealPlayer11GOLD.deb) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of realplay:i386:
realplay:i386 depends on lsb (>= 3.1).
dpkg: error processing realplay:i386 (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
realplay:i386





Sincerely,
Keith D. Lee

John:
No, I have it installed and configured --

Installed: 4.0-0ubuntu20
Candidate: 4.0-0ubuntu20
Version table:
*** 4.0-0ubuntu20 0
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status


Package: lsb
Priority: extra
Section: misc
Installed-Size: 44
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Chris Lawrence
Architecture: all
Version: 4.0-0ubuntu20
Depends: lsb-core, lsb-graphics, lsb-cxx, lsb-desktop, lsb-printing
Suggests: lsb-multimedia, lsb-languages
Filename: pool/main/l/lsb/lsb_4.0-0ubuntu20_all.deb
Size: 4052
MD5sum: a7a31e5c0eea0e36938614f39dcccca3
SHA1: 8251479ce7c7783862dd7eefdbb878dea381fdd4
SHA256: 162626765cb8bfeb2d898178c59c79f25ead961dc2c7ec089ff7212ea02ccc72
Description-en: Linux Standard Base 4.0 support package
The Linux Standard Base (http://www.linuxbase.org/) is a standard
core system that third-party applications written for Linux can
depend upon.
.
This package provides an implementation of all modules of version 4.0
of the Linux Standard Base for Debian on the Intel x86, Intel ia64
(Itanium), IBM S390, and PowerPC 32-bit architectures with the Linux
kernel. Future revisions of the specification and this package may
support the LSB on additional architectures and kernels.
.
The intent of this package is to provide a best current practice way
of installing and running LSB packages on Debian GNU/Linux. Its
presence does not imply that Debian fully complies
with the Linux Standard Base, and should not be construed as a
statement that Debian is LSB-compliant.
Homepage: http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/LSB
Description-md5: 0c59357906ff55e3d508408eaafb089d
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu
Supported: 5y





Sincerely,
Keith D. Lee

On 06/25/2012 04:26 PM, Keith D. Lee wrote:

CW:
Didn't work for me. Here is the output from Ubuntu Software --

...

Unpacking realplay:i386 (from .../Downloads/RealPlayer11GOLD.deb) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of realplay:i386:
realplay:i386 depends on lsb (>= 3.1).
dpkg: error processing realplay:i386 (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
realplay:i386

Installing that .deb requires considerably more packages (39) before you
can install on Precise 12.04.

$ sudo gdebi RealPlayer11GOLD.deb
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Building data structures... Done
Building data structures... Done

Requires the installation of the following packages:
alien build-essential debhelper dh-apparmor dpkg-dev g++ g++-4.6
heirloom-mailx html2text intltool-debian libalgorithm-diff-perl
libalgorithm-diff-xs-perl libalgorithm-merge-perl libdpkg-perl
libjpeg62 libmail-sendmail-perl libqt3-mt libqt4-designer libqt4-gui
librpm2 librpmbuild2 librpmio2 librpmsign0 libstdc++6-4.6-dev
libsys-hostname-long-perl lsb lsb-core lsb-cxx lsb-desktop
lsb-graphics lsb-invalid-mta lsb-printing m4 ncurses-term pax
po-debconf rpm rpm-common rpm2cpio

plays mp3, rm, ra, rv, wma, wmv, ogg, aac, and more.
RealPlayer for Linux is based on the open source Helix player.
.
RealPlayer supports RealAudio, RealVideo, WMA, WMV, MP3, Ogg Vorbis and
Theora, H263, AAC and more. Get ready for accelerated video, full
screen playback, and a lot more to enjoy.
Do you want to install the software package? [y/N]:n

If you install gdebi:

$ sudo apt-get install gdebi

You can run the gui version by right clicking on the .deb file in
Nautilus and selecting 'Open With|GDebi Package Installer and that will
bring up the gui for installing. In this case, gdebi determines that it
can actually install all of the dependencies & is asking your permission
to download and install.

To run from the terminal, simply use as I've shown above:

$ sudo gdebi RealPlayer11GOLD.deb

and answer 'Y' (yes) at the 'Do you want to install the software
package? [y/N]:'.

Note: don't include the '$', that is the prompt and there merely to show
that: 1) you are issueing the command from the terminal, and 2) that you
are in regular user mode vs root ('#') mode. If you were in root mode
(sudo -s etc), the command would not need the 'sudo' comand and would
look like:

# gdebi RealPlayer11GOLD.deb

Personally I wouldn't bother (to install RealPlayer) unless you *know*
that you need it for some particular service. It has been abandoned by
both RealPlayer and Helix, and hasn't been updated since 2008. Even then
is was prone to breakage.

What specifically are you trying to accomplish by installing RealPlayer?

On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 23:26:41 +0000 (UTC)
"Keith D. Lee" wrote:

CW:
Didn't work for me. Here is the output from Ubuntu Software --

Hi, Keith,

I'm using LXDE, not GNOME so...
The 'easy' way:
I downloaded the file, "RealPlayer11GOLD.deb using Opera,
then right clicked the file, told it to, "open." It opened in File
Roller. I told it to extract, gave it the name of a sub-directory in
my /home/cybe directory (/home/cybe/.Real). It did.
Navigating to that directory, I clicked on the file, "realplay.bin"
found in /home/cybe/.Real/opt/real/RealPlayer which, I'll admit, is
hard to find.

It's quite inelegant but I'm the only user of this machine and know
where I installed to.

the 'Right Way':
I imagine it /should/ be extracted into /opt. I'd do this by opening
my file manager (PCmanFM) as root, then double-tapping the file,
"/home/cybe/.opera/temporary_downloads/RealPlayer11GOLD.deb."

When file roller starts, I navigate to /opt/real and tell it to
extract the folder, /RealPlayer to /opt.

Choose, "realplay," not, "realplay.bin."

Done, and accessible to all users.

It's nice, I guess, but I prefer smplayer or totem. There are /many/
more options. I think you'll find more and better options with most of
the FLOSS players.

Hope this helps.

Cybe R. Wizard
N remmbr, I iz 1337 n U R n00b, so STFU, kk? Do a furum srch. Ttly.
Lolcat Bible <http://www.lolcatbible.com>
Ecclesiastes 5, 2