Cannot install Realplaye

[James Wilkinson]

Fajar Priyanto wrote:
> When I tried to install Realplayer , I got this error:
> [root at crc ~]# rpm -Uvh RealPlayer-10.0.6.776-20050915.i586.rpm
> Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
>    1:RealPlayer             ########################################### [100%]
> error: unpacking of archive failed on 
> file /usr/local/RealPlayer/plugins/swfformat.so;440c0261: cpio: read
> 
> What does it mean? In some of the boxes, I can install it just fine. Only in 
> this particular box I got the problem, it's a FC4 without updates.

You really ought to install the updates if that box is anywhere near the
Internet.

But that sounds like you've got a problem either with the box or with
the RPM. Check that you've got plenty of free space on all your
filesystems. Run the command
sha1sum RealPlayer-10.0.6.776-20050915.i586.rpm
on both the troublesome box and on one where the RPM worked: if the
output is different, you've got a corrupt RPM. (Obviously, you should
use a copy that you successfully used to install: don't take a possibly
dud copy to a working box and use that). If necessary, re-download the
RPM.

It's possible that this is a symptom of RAM going bad. You might want to
use memtest86 (available on Fedora boot CDs) to check the memory on this
computer. Warning: you should at least leave it running overnight.

Hope this helps,

James.

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