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From: "Alan E. Davis" <lngndvs@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Problem emerging realplayer-10.0.6
Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2005 11:58:33
Message-Id: 7bef1f890511010342i333d52f5qcf4258a97e4b319f@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Problem emerging realplayer-10.0.6 by Walter Dnes
1 I didn't understand how to set the ssl flag.
2
3 I used wget to download, using the option mentioned in the error message
4 given, and installed it in /usr/portage/distfiles. Then "emerge realplayer"
5 again. It's not pretty but it worked.
6
7 Alan
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9 On 11/1/05, Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> wrote:
10 >
11 > On Sat, Oct 29, 2005 at 01:18:27PM -0700, Schleimer, Ben wrote
12 > > Hi,
13 > > I'm trying to emerge realplayer-10.0.6 and it's not
14 > > behaving properly:
15 >
16 > [...deletia...]
17 >
18 > > https://helixcommunity.org/download.php/...blah...blah...blah
19 > *****
20 > *****
21 >
22 > Several people on this list, me included, have been bitten by this.
23 > Note the "s" in "https". That means "secure". wget is the program that
24 > emerge uses to download files. In order to access "https" URLs, wget
25 > *MUST* be emerged with the "ssl" flag. You can either set it globally
26 > in your /etc/make.conf, or if you just want to affect wget, enter this
27 > line in /etc/portage/package.use
28 >
29 > net-misc/wget ssl
30 >
31 > You must emerge wget after setting the "ssl" flag, and then wget can
32 > access "https" URLs.
33 >
34 > --
35 > Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> In linux /sbin/init is Job #1
36 > My musings on technology and security at http://tech_sec.blog.ca
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39 >
40 >
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[gentoo-user] Re: Problem emerging realplayer-10.0.6 Tim Kruse <irrlicht2c@×××.net>