Re: G2 Player expires?

[Michael Starnes <mstarnes99 yahoo com>]

I think they may have made the downloadable '_rpm' to avoid a problem with
netscape thinking the .rpm extention is something else. Anyway, I downloaded
it, changed the name, installed it and still got the result: expired. I posted
another email about the solution which is to download a binary for linux
2.0/2.2

--- David Morrison <ddm beachnet com> wrote:
> I followed the link from Linux Today and downloaded it.
> Here are the instructions from real.com on what to do:
> --------------------
> Rename the uncompressed file.
> Type mv G2player-6.0-0.99051701.i386_rpm
>         G2player-6.0-0.99051701.i386.rpm
> Type rpm -i G2player-6.0-0.99051701.i386.rpm
> --------------------
> I don't think they mean it, since both parts of the mv are identical, and the
> downloaded file is:
> G2player-6.0-0.99092901.i386_rpm
> I wonder  1) what is the right thing to do, and 2) what is going on here.
> 
> They have a new version, and want to pretend that it is the old version
> so the expiration date will be sometime in the future?
> 
> I guess I figured out what to do. The new player works. Seems slower.
> But listening to realplayer will turn your mind to mush anyway.
> 
>           Dave Morrison
> 
> On 30-Sep-99 K. Holcomb wrote:
> >>> 
> > 
> >       According to
> >         linuxtoday.com/stories/10586.html
> > 
> >       it is OK now.  Apparently they fixed the binary first and didn't
> >       get the new rpm version up till recently.  The new one seems to
> >       expire in March 2000 but they told the author of the Linux Today item
> >       that they would have a beta version available around the end of this
> >       year.  No plugin yet but again, they promise they are working on it.
> > 
> > 
> >>> You're not the only one!
> >>> <snip> 
> 
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