On Friday 19 October 2007, Daniel Yek wrote:
> Willy Gommel wrote:
> >>>> Hi Willy,
> >>>>
> >>>> I suppose you won't mind trying if the
following works, right?
> >>>>
> >>>> Try converting the nightly-build .rpm
package to .deb package using
> >>>> the alien tool:
> >
> > Dunno what you expected from alien. However, this
is not what I expected:
> >
> > ------------------------- output from alien
--------------------------
> >
> > Warning: Skipping conversion of scripts in package
RealPlayer: postinst
> > prerm Warning: Use the --scripts parameter to
include the scripts.
> > Package build failed. Here's the log:
> > dh_testdir
> > dh_testdir
> > dh_testroot
> > dh_clean -k -d
> > dh_installdirs
> > dh_installdocs
> > dh_installchangelogs
> > find . -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -not -name debian
-print0 |
> > xargs -0 -r -i cp -a {}
debian/realplayer
> > dh_compress
> > dh_makeshlibs
> > dh_installdeb
> > dh_shlibdeps
> > dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: could not find any
packages for
> > libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 dpkg-shlibdeps: warning:
unable to find dependency
> > information for shared library libgdk-x11-2.0
(soname 0, path
> > libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0, dependency field Depends)
>
> <snip>
>
> > dh_gencontrol
> > dpkg-gencontrol: error: current host architecture
'amd64' does not appear
> > in package's architecture list (i386)
> > dh_gencontrol: command returned error code 65280
> > make: *** [binary-arch] Error 1
> > find: RealPlayer-10.1.0.3624: No such file or
directory
> >
> > ------------------------- end of alien output
-------------------------
> >
> > Once again, I had LD-LIBRARY-PATH set correctly.
> >
> > This seems so discouraging ... ;(
>
> Oh well...I hope someone else could give you a hand
later. Either, we
> haven't started supporting AMD64 platform. That can be
the platform
> early adopters can work on to find solution or create
support for the
> platform.
I look forward to a hand from anyone competent to offer one,
whenever they get
around to it. ;)
> I suppose you can do the conversion using alien on your
i386 machine and
> try again, but I guess the packaging dependency
resolution on your
> system won't do the trick; it was just something to
try.
Of course. We tried it, and it turned out not to have quite
enough horsepower.
> I'm running the i386 RealPlayer on 2 of my Fedora AMD64
boxes. They work
> quite well (there is a sound driver problem on one
though,) without me
> having to install any special packages.
How encouraging!! 
Listen. I'm sitting here on my AMD64 right now. I believe
I'm going to try
downloading and installing the AMD64 nightly build and
experiment with it.
After all, if it runs at all, I am as good at reporting bugs
as anyone! :p
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............................................................
. Willy Gommel
http://www.wg3.net
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