To install trplayer on gentoo: First i had to install realplayer and all the realplayer packages on gentoo were masked due to "vulnerabilities", but I figured that I've been using them this long might as well continue, so I unmasked media-video/realplayer by creating /etc/portage and under that a package.unmask and putting in it the entry media-video/realplayer. Then I had to also unmask the corresponding codecs by placing another entry in the /etc/portage/package.unmask file: media-plugins/realvideo-codecs (probably didn't really need this but emerge wouldn't proceed without it.) Then I had to fetch the realplayer package from the real.com site and as far as I can tell the package is no longer there. So I renamed the rp8.bin package from the /pub/linux/goodies directory of the speakup ftp site (the .bin file was required) to the name it was supposed to have: rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs2.bin copied it to /usr/portage/distfiles and ran "emerge" again. it installed!!! but then i couldn't find any way to install trplayer; neither the .deb or .rpm package was installable on my gentoo box--there might have been a binary on the speakup ftp but it suddenly wasn't accessible. I finally copied the trplayer binary from my laptop--which runs debian--and tried to run it. Got the old shared libraries problem about libstdc++1-2.so.3 so i copied that from my /usr/lib directory on my debian box too and ran ldconfig. Then it couldn't find the needed libs in /usr/lib/RealPlayer/Common; this was no wonder since /usr/lib/RealPlayer didn't exist. so i also copied that from my debian box and said to myself: "You're kidding yourself if you think this is going to work!" But it does work!!! Also, for anybody using gentoo, the mplayer on gentoo also seems to have problems--at least it didn't work for me a week or so ago when i tried it--so you may be better off just compiling your own. -- Cheryl "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."
