What happened to RealPlayer?
 

I have just tried to install the RealPlayer rpm on my FC4 machine - there was no output to the screen and it simply went back to the command prompt and I couldn't find or start it afterwards.

So I tried it again:

OK I thought, try this:

Huh??? Whats going on?

the package name is probably just different, case may have changed or something. try "rpm -qa | grep -i real" and see what that spits out.

That spits out nothing...

ok, try "rpm -qvp RealWhatever.rpm" and that will list the header info, including the package name in the database.

# rpm -qvp RealPlayer10GOLD.rpm
error: open of RealPlayer10GOLD.rpm failed: No such file or directory
error: open of RealPlayer10GOLD.rpm failed: No such file or directory

I dont know to much about this but it seems as though the install has only partially completed and left certain traces of itself - is that a possibility?

Wait, I have some output from that last one (I was in the wrong dir)

# rpm -qvp RealPlayer10GOLD.rpm
RealPlayer-10.0.6.776-20050915

Thats all there was.

well that there would suggest a simple path issue, but this does look a lot messier than the normal issue where people confuse package names (realplayer) and file names (realplayer.blah.rpm)

ahh hand shandy.... i meant "-qip"

Ok that gives a lot more info:



It says that it is not installed, and the dir /usr/local/RealPlayer is empty.

Or
or shall give a list of all the files installed by the package "RealPlayer-10.0.6.776-20050915 (or RealPlayeranything)". Then search the output to find the loaction of the program. It may be in a directory which is not listed in your PATH (Eg: /usr/bin/Real/).

After you found it try executing using the absolute path (Eg: /usr/bin/Real/RealPlayer) If this is the case you may also want to add a sym link into your path (Eg: "ln -s /usr/bin/Real/RealPlayer /usr/share/bin" logged in as root)

LOL! This is an endless circle!

# rpm -q RealPlayer-10.0.6.776-20050915 --filesbypkg
package RealPlayer-10.0.6.776-20050915 is not installed

How do I get off this freeway?? :)

Ok, I know this is repeating. Lets try one more time.

• rpm -qa real* should give you whetever package installed by the name starting from "real".
• cd to your home dir (just type cd and enter) before you try this and try to remain there.
• If you get nothing that means there is no such thing the package manager knows about it.
• If you get something like RealPlayer-10.0.6.776-20050915 as out put then try rpm -q RealPlayer* --filesbypkg to get a list of all the files installed by the package.

But your situation seems different somehow, for your system said
package RealPlayer-10.0.6.776-20050915 is already installed
and then,
package RealPlayer-10.0.6.776-20050915 is not installed
:)

Just try once againg (remember to cd, see above)

Edit: Sorry about the first point. But rpm -qa real* --filesbypkg should work.

Ok I'm in my home dir, and rpm -qa real* produces nothing.

"rpm -qa real*" is an invalid command. it says to query the database and list ALL packages. then on the end to tag a list of all files int he current directory which start with "real"

the -qip output says that the package that will be provided is "RealPlayer" so if "rpm -qi RealPlayer" doesn't work then something screwed. you can try forcing the reinstallation of the rpm using the --force or --replacepkgs options.

Its getting late here - I might give this a miss for the moment and check back in tomorrow. I'll try the forced install too. Thanks for your help Chris :)