Hi, Thanks for this posting - it fixed me up. One change below. Eric Janto Trappe wrote: > > > It's a bug realplayer installer procedure. A workaround for potatos > realplayer 8.0.1 posted by Frodo Baggins: > > --8<-- > > 1. run > dpkg-reconfigure debconf > to reconfigure the debconf package. Answer 'low' to the question > about the level of questions that should be ignored. Also answer > 'No' to 'preconfigure packages' and 'yes' to 'should debconf ask > you the same questions again and again?'. > > 2. Install realplayer by > > apt-get install realplayer > > (or by using dselect) > > 3. (optional) set back debconf to standard mode. This must be done > by running > dpkg-reconfigure debconf
I had to do a dpkg-reconfigure -priority=low debconf. I may have had the system set to high so no visual screen came up without the -priority=low. > two times: > - the first one let the level to low and answer 'yes' to > 'preconfigure packages' and 'No' to 'repat the same > question'. > > - the second time set the level to 'medium'. > > You need to do this in to pass, because if you set the level to > medium directly, then you'll not see the two other questions and > you'll not able toi set back to default value their options. > > --8<-- > > Janto > > -- > It's naive to assume that just installing a firewall is going to protect > you from all potential security threat. That assumption creates a false > sense of security, and having a false sense of security is worse than having > no security at all. - Kevin Mitnick > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Part 1.2Type: application/pgp-signature
