[gentoo-user] Re: Problem emerging realplayer-10.0.6

[Tim Kruse]

* On 01.11.2005 Walter Dnes wrote:

>   Several people on this list, me included, have been bitten by this.
> Note the "s" in "https".  That means "secure".  wget is the program that
> emerge uses to download files.  In order to access "https" URLs, wget
> *MUST* be emerged with the "ssl" flag.  You can either set it globally
> in your /etc/make.conf, or if you just want to affect wget, enter this
> line in /etc/portage/package.use
>
> net-misc/wget ssl
>
>   You must emerge wget after setting the "ssl" flag, and then wget can
> access "https" URLs.

 I had the same problem and my wget is emerged with the ssl USE
flag

,-----[equery uses wget]
| [...]
| + + ssl    : Adds support for Secure Socket Layer connections
| [...]
`-----

 So that is not the issue here. The problem is, that wget
couldn't verify the certificate (for which reason ever) and you
have to manually download it (or set the proper option in wget's
config):

,-----
| # wget \
| https://helixcommunity.org/download.php/1589/RealPlayer-10.0.6.776-20050915.i586.rpm
| --12:30:08--  \
| https://helixcommunity.org/download.php/1589/RealPlayer-10.0.6.776-20050915.i586.rpm
|            => `RealPlayer-10.0.6.776-20050915.i586.rpm'
| Resolving helixcommunity.org... 207.188.25.135
| Connecting to helixcommunity.org|207.188.25.135|:443... connected.
| ERROR: Certificate verification error for helixcommunity.org:
|     unable to get local issuer certificate
| To connect to helixcommunity.org insecurely, use `--no-check-certificate'.
                                               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| Unable to establish SSL connection.
|
| # wget --no-check-certificate \
| https://helixcommunity.org/download.php/1589/RealPlayer-10.0.6.776-20050915.i586.rpm
| --12:30:23--  \
| https://helixcommunity.org/download.php/1589/RealPlayer-10.0.6.776-20050915.i586.rpm
|            => `RealPlayer-10.0.6.776-20050915.i586.rpm'
| Resolving helixcommunity.org... 207.188.25.135
| Connecting to helixcommunity.org|207.188.25.135|:443... connected.
| WARNING: Certificate verification error for helixcommunity.org:
|     unable to get local issuer certificate
| HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
| Length: 6,643,315 (6.3M) [application/binary]
|
|  5% [====>                             ] 360,448      128.93K/s
`-----

 So long,
tkr

PS: Sorry for the long lines. They're due to copy and paste,
    but I have reajusted the longest

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