RealPlayer10GOLD installation

[Justin Georgeson]

While you're right about the %post and symlinks, the script that does
all that is part of the RPM and is installed under
/usr/local/RealPlayer, so finding out what they are is trivial. It
would be nice if it installed under /opt, though.


On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 10:45:10 -0600, Jason L Tibbitts III
<tibbs at math.uh.edu> wrote:
> >>>>> "MS" == Matthew Saltzman <mjs at ces.clemson.edu> writes:
> 
> MS> Me neither, but why not use the RPM?  It installed flawlessly for
> MS> me (in /usr/local/RealPlayer), works great.
> 
> That RPM is crap.  It stuff things in /usr/local which is supposed to
> be off-limits for RPMS and happens to be an autofs mount point for me.
> It copies files all over the place in %post that don't show up as
> being owned by the RPM, and it generally does things it's not supposed
> to.
> 
> I wrote something to unpack the stock RPM and pack up a new RPM that
> installs properly.  Or at least sort-or-properly; I don't pretend to
> know much about what I'm doing but it seems to work fine and doesn't
> crap all over my systems.
> 
> If anyone wants the .spec file, just let me know.
> 
>  - J<
> 
> 
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