What happened to RealPlayer?

JungleNut · 05-28-2006, 07:34 AM

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:

Code:

rpm -Uvh RealPlayer10GOLD.rpm
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
package RealPlayer-10.0.6.776-20050915 is already installed

OK I thought, try this:

Code:

# rpm -e RealPlayer10GOLD
error: package RealPlayer10GOLD is not installed

Huh??? Whats going on?

acid_kewpie · 05-28-2006, 07:39 AM

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.

JungleNut · 05-28-2006, 07:42 AM

That spits out nothing...

acid_kewpie · 05-28-2006, 07:45 AM

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

JungleNut · 05-28-2006, 07:50 AM

# 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?

JungleNut · 05-28-2006, 07:52 AM

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.

acid_kewpie · 05-28-2006, 07:52 AM

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)

acid_kewpie · 05-28-2006, 07:53 AM

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

JungleNut · 05-28-2006, 08:02 AM

Ok that gives a lot more info:

Code:

# rpm -qip RealPlayer10GOLD.rpm
Name        : RealPlayer                   Relocations: /usr/local
Version     : 10.0.6.776                        Vendor: RealNetworks, Inc
Release     : 20050915                      Build Date: Fri 16 Sep 2005 10:30:35 AM EST
Install Date: (not installed)               Build Host: amberjack
Group       : Applications/Multimedia       Source RPM: RealPlayer-10.0.6.776-20050915.src.rpm
Size        : 15240885                         License: RPSL, EULA
Signature   : (none)
Packager    : RealNetworks, Inc
URL         : http://www.real.com/
Summary     : RealPlayer

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

SkyEye · 05-28-2006, 08:06 AM

Or

Code:

rpm -q RealPlayer-10.0.6.776-20050915 --filesbypkg

or

Code:

rpm -q RealPlayer* --filesbypkg

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)

JungleNut · 05-28-2006, 08:08 AM

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??

SkyEye · 05-28-2006, 08:22 AM

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.

JungleNut · 05-28-2006, 08:32 AM

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

acid_kewpie · 05-28-2006, 08:37 AM

"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.

JungleNut · 05-28-2006, 08:43 AM

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