realplayer rpm problem with Fedora

[Richard A. Franklin]

Just when I thought I  had found a good laptop distro in Fedora, I 
downloaded the RPM for RealPlayer 8 ... now I have a very buggy system.

:-(

Then I find "*Bugzilla Bug 109526:*  Installing RealPlayer RPM trashes 
RPM database".  http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=109526

All subsequent attempts to install rpms have failed ... prior to 
attempting to install RealPlayer, all installations were a breeze.

No big deal, really ... just thought I would post this for the benefit 
of anyone who may be thinking about doing the same.  I think there are 
some procedures posted on the Web for avoiding this pitfall in the first 
place.

I will either find a fix for this problem, or start over. I don't have 
time (yet) to do anything sensible, like learn Debian, but look forward 
to when I do. In the meantime <sigh>, that's why I dual boot!