[20743] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 9.1.15: RealPlayer
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (t. belton)
Wed Sep 18 15:09:53 2002
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 15:09:51 -0400 (EDT)
From: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
To: "Aaron M. Ucko" <amu@alum.MIT.EDU>
cc: "Roger A. Roach" <rar@MIT.EDU>, <bugs@MIT.EDU>, <f_l@MIT.EDU>,
Alex Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
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Aha. It looks like what happens is that the one page about unix I could
get to from their very spammy top pages identifies their last Unix version
as 7 (and gives no link). The page Aaron provides doesn't identify what
version you're getting at all. But the downloaded files themselves
identify as rp8. I'll install them; we might get a pleasant surprise. Stay
tuned.
On 18 Sep 2002, Aaron M. Ucko wrote:
> <tbelton@MIT.EDU> (t. belton) writes:
>
> > Yes. Your diagnosis is probably correct.
> >
> > Unfortunately there are no more recent versions of RealPlayer for Unix.
> > And I don't just mean there are no more free versions. I mean no more. In
> > fact, if you now go to Real's site you will have trouble finding a page
> > that ever admits they made a Unix version in the past at all. You can no
> > longer download them.
>
> It looks like you can actually still download RealPlayer 8 for Unix
> (including Linux, Solaris, and IRIX) from
> <http://forms.real.com/real/player/unix/unix.html>;
> I don't know whether that will suffice here.
>
> --
> Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org)
> Finger amu@monk.mit.edu (NOT a valid e-mail address) for more info.
>
