<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 3:03 AM, Mischa Falkenburg <<a href="mailto:because_productions@myfairpoint.net">because_productions@myfairpoint.net</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="im">Vincent wrote: > > OK. It revealed itself as 8.04.3, so I've downloaded the 8.04 .deb > file which now sits on the Desktop. Jumping the gun, I > right-clicked on the file and was given the choice of using GDebi > Package Installer. That gave me the message of: "could not open, > etc."...check permissions. > What next? > > > Hmm, that is odd, just double-clicking it (which should open GDebi > Package Installer) should work. Does it say the "check permissions" > thing upon opening it, or does the GDebi window appear and does the > error occur when you press Install? Can you open a terminal window > again and then execute: > > gdebi ~/Desktop/realplayer_11.0.0-0.2medibuntu0.8.04.1_i386.deb > > That should do the same as double-clicking it. If that doesn't work, > could you mail the output in the terminal window? > > Then, you can try your hand at installing it from the command line to > see if that works. To do so, run the following in a terminal window: > > sudo dpkg -i ~/Desktop/realplayer_11.0.0-0.2medibuntu0.8.04.1_i386.deb > > Enter your password, then press enter, and tell us if it works. > > > M. > > > > > -- > Vincent </div>The installer opened, and then the error display landed on top. Here is the output from the terminal: > michael@ubuntu:~$ gdebi <div class="im">> ~/Desktop/realplayer_11.0.0-0.2medibuntu0.8.04.1_i386.deb </div>> Reading package lists: Done > Reading state information: Done > Reading state information: Done > Reading state information: Done > Failed to open the software package > The package might be corrupted or you are not allowed to open the > file. Check the permissions of the file. Then I entered the 2nd and here's THAT output: <div class="im">> sudo dpkg -i ~/Desktop/realplayer_11.0.0-0.2medibuntu0.8.04.1_i386.deb </div>> Selecting previously deselected package realplayer. > (Reading database ... 151271 files and directories currently installed.) > Unpacking realplayer (from > .../realplayer_11.0.0-0.2medibuntu0.8.04.1_i386.deb) ... > dpkg-deb (subprocess): short read in buffer_copy (failed to write to > pipe in copy) > dpkg-deb: subprocess paste returned error exit status 2 > dpkg: error processing > /home/michael/Desktop/realplayer_11.0.0-0.2medibuntu0.8.04.1_i386.deb > (--install): > short read in buffer_copy (backend dpkg-deb during > `./usr/lib/realplay-11.0.0/plugins/vidsite.so') > Errors were encountered while processing: > /home/michael/Desktop/realplayer_11.0.0-0.2medibuntu0.8.04.1_i386.deb M. <div><div></div> </div></blockquote></div> OK, I think something went wrong downloading the file. You can check by running the following command in a terminal window: md5sum ~/Desktop/realplayer_11.0.0-0.2medibuntu0.8.04.1_i386.deb | grep 652df25834428bd8ec36ba170f2c6ab3 If there is no output (i.e. it only reshows "michael@ubuntu:~$"), then indeed something went wrong with the download. If the file got transferred correctly it should show something like 652df25834428bd8ec36ba170f2c6ab3 /home/michael/Desktop/realplayer_11.0.0-0.2medibuntu0.8.04.1_i386.deb If that doesn't appear, could you try downloading the .deb file again, and then perform this check again? And if it then works, try installing it again :) -- Vincent