Mike Hore wrote:
Now my next question is another newbie question -- I want to try to run the Helix audio player, so I've downloaded the latest PPC buildhxplay-11.1.1.1404-linux-powerpc64The problem is, I don't really know what to do next. I've uncompressed it into a directory "helix" in my home directory, and there's a whole lot of stuff there including a Bin directory with an executable file called "setup" that I guess I'm supposed to run, but I can't run it from there, and don't know either where to put it or how to change my paths or whatever it is so I can run it from the command line. Sorry for asking such basic questions...
OK, I got it figured out. I checked my $PATH variable and found I needed to either move the helix stuff into e.g. /usr/bin, or else on the command line just type the complete path to the setup prog. This worked, and I got Helix installed.
Now, never satisfied, I want to get streaming audio from sites that only provide RealPlayer or WMP formats! These are proprietary, and so not supported by Helix. Helix kindly tells me I need to download RealPlayer 11, but of course when I look there I find that while Linux packages are available in RPM or DEB formats, it's x86 only (as usual).
Any suggestions? (Apart from switching to Intel, which I won't ever ever do)
Cheers, Mike.
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Mike Hore mike_hore@aapt.net.au
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