[nzlug] Install realpalyer in Ubuntu ... or not.

Vik Olliver vik at econz.co.nz
Thu Nov 23 14:48:53 NZDT 2006


On Thu, 2006-11-23 at 14:37 +1300, Ian McDonald wrote:
> Long time no talk to you.

Hi Ian! Going to LCA 2007?

> Try doing the following "aptitude show xlibs" which might show which
> packages can provide the real package (virtual packages can't be
> installed).

That wasn't a happy command. Doesn't know about xlibs.

> If that doesn't help try "aptitude search xlibs" which might give the
> answers.
> 
That was. Told me to install xlibs-dev. Which I did.

Still didn't get realplayer to install though :( Oh well, stuff
RealPlayer anyway...

Vik :v)
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