Re: [gentoo-user] Realplayer unsupported scheme?

[Paul Varner]

On Fri, 2005-07-08 at 13:37 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
>   I understand that there's a security update out for Realplayer.  But
> when I try to emerge it, this happens...
>
> > [m1800][root][~] emerge --ask realplayer
> >
> > These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
> >
> > Calculating dependencies ...done!
> > [ebuild     U ] media-video/realplayer-10.0.5 [10.0.4]
> >
> > Do you want me to merge these packages? [Yes/No]
> > >>> emerge (1 of 1) media-video/realplayer-10.0.5 to /
> > >>> Downloading https://helixcommunity.org/download.php/1343/RealPlayer-10.0.5.756-20050513.i586.rpm
> > https://helixcommunity.org/download.php/1343/RealPlayer-10.0.5.756-20050513.i586.rpm: Unsupported scheme.
> > !!! Couldn't download RealPlayer-10.0.5.756-20050513.i586.rpm. Aborting.
>
>   I can understand Gentoo being unhappy with an RPM<g>.  What to do
> about it?

Gentoo has no problems dealing with the RPM file. Make sure that you
have emerged wget with ssl support using the ssl USE flag.
Alternatively, download the file with your browser and place it in your
distfiles directory (normally, /usr/portage/distfiles).

Regards,
Paul
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