[ale] realplayer on linux

[Glenn C. Lasher Jr.]

I have encountered this one a *lot* on my 550MHz AMD.  It seems that, to
RPM, the K6-2 looks like a hyper-fast Pentium MMX.  As a result, anything
packaged for PPro/PII/P!!! fails the architecture test.

Regarding RealPlayer, there is another version with the filename extension
'bin' and it is an ELF executable that does the installation for you, a la
Windows packages.  Not my preferred method, but it works.

On Sat, 3 Mar 2001, Phrostie wrote:

> I've just downloaded the realplayer 8 rpm for linux.
> when i goto  install it i get:
>
> [root at atlanta phrostie]# rpm -i rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs1_rpm
> package RealPlayer-8.0-1 is for a different architecture
>
> i'm running on a 350Mhz AMD.
>
> this has been happening more and more lately.
> what gives?
>
>

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