installing trplayer on gentoo; also gentoo/mplayer tip

[Cheryl Homiak]

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."