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List:       helix-player-dev
Subject:    [Player-dev] Re: Installing i386 RealPlayer on AMD64 machine / alien
From:       Willy Gommel <wg3w () spamcop ! net>
Date:       2007-10-21 0:13:50
Message-ID: 200710201713.50638.wg3w () spamcop ! net
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On Friday 19 October 2007, Daniel Yek wrote:

> Willy Gommel wrote:
> >>>> Hi Willy,
> >>>>
> >>>> I suppose you won't mind trying if the following works, right?
> >>>>
> >>>> Try converting the nightly-build .rpm package to .deb package using
> >>>> the alien tool:
> >
> > Dunno what you expected from alien. However, this is not what I expected:
> >
> > ------------------------- output from alien --------------------------
> >
> > Warning: Skipping conversion of scripts in package RealPlayer: postinst
> > prerm Warning: Use the --scripts parameter to include the scripts.
> > Package build failed. Here's the log:
> > dh_testdir
> > dh_testdir
> > dh_testroot
> > dh_clean -k -d
> > dh_installdirs
> > dh_installdocs
> > dh_installchangelogs
> > find . -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -not -name debian -print0 | \
> >                 xargs -0 -r -i cp -a {} debian/realplayer
> > dh_compress
> > dh_makeshlibs
> > dh_installdeb
> > dh_shlibdeps
> > dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: could not find any packages for
> > libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: unable to find dependency
> > information for shared library libgdk-x11-2.0 (soname 0, path
> > libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0, dependency field Depends)
>
> <snip>
>
> > dh_gencontrol
> > dpkg-gencontrol: error: current host architecture 'amd64' does not appear
> > in package's architecture list (i386)
> > dh_gencontrol: command returned error code 65280
> > make: *** [binary-arch] Error 1
> > find: RealPlayer-10.1.0.3624: No such file or directory
> >
> > ------------------------- end of alien output -------------------------
> >
> > Once again, I had LD-LIBRARY-PATH set correctly.
> >
> > This seems so discouraging ... ;(
>
> Oh well...I hope someone else could give you a hand later. Either, we
> haven't started supporting AMD64 platform. That can be the platform
> early adopters can work on to find solution or create support for the
> platform.

I look forward to a hand from anyone competent to offer one, whenever they get 
around to it. ;)

> I suppose you can do the conversion using alien on your i386 machine and
> try again, but I guess the packaging dependency resolution on your
> system won't do the trick; it was just something to try.

Of course. We tried it, and it turned out not to have quite enough horsepower.

> I'm running the i386 RealPlayer on 2 of my Fedora AMD64 boxes. They work
> quite well (there is a sound driver problem on one though,) without me
> having to install any special packages.

How encouraging!! :)

Listen. I'm sitting here on my AMD64 right now. I believe I'm going to try 
downloading and installing the AMD64 nightly build and experiment with it. 
After all, if it runs at all, I am as good at reporting bugs as anyone! :p

-- 

  ............................................................. Willy Gommel
http://www.wg3.net


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