I made a few glaring errors about building an RPM. The directory you need to change to first us /usr/src/redhat/RPMS and to build the RPM you do rpmbbuild -bb filename.spec. Thanks, Nick ----- Original Message ----- From: "nick G" <Nick6489@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Saturday, October 23, 2004 11:00 AM Subject: Re: problem installing realplayer 8 > If you can find an srpm for Real Player 8, follow these steps. > 1. Install the SRPM in the usual way. > 2. Change directory to /usrsrc/redhat/SPECS. > 3. Compile the rpm by doing the following. > rpm -bb rp.spec > Where rp.spec, insert that file. > 4. Change directory one more time to /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386. If that > isn't it, go I686, keep looking until you found the newly created RPM. > Thanks, > Nick > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Cheryl Homiak" <chomiak at charter.net> > To: "speakup" <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Saturday, October 23, 2004 10:47 AM > Subject: problem installing realplayer 8 > > >>I just installed speakup-modified FC2 on both my desktop and laptop >>computer. I'm extremely pleased with the way everything is working right >>out of the box. >> However, I do have one problem. Because I still use trplayer for some >> things, I installed the realplayer rpm from the speakup site. This worked >> fine on my laptop, but on my desktop I was told that this rpm (which says >> i386 in its filename) is intended for i686 architecture. Admitedly, uname >> shows my desktop as an i586 whereas my laptop does indeed show up as an >> i686. However, I've never before had to find separate realplayer packages >> for the two machines. Is there a workaround for this or am I going to be >> unable to install Realplayer 8 on my desktop? Btw, if you install >> Realplayer 8, you do get a complaint about unable to pen display: set >> your environment variable and try again. But in reality it works just >> fine and allows the installation of trplayer--no complaints about unmet >> dependencies or missing libraries. >> >> >> -- >> Cheryl >> >> "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also." >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
