Realplayer only works as root

[Eric <ej@goomba.ml.org>]

I downloaded and installed the latest version of realplayer recently.  I
got the Redhat package and used alien to convert it to a deb.  It seemed
to install fine, but when I run it as a normal user and try to play
something (even the welcome.rm) it says "File compression not supported.
Cannot locate the requested RealAudio decoder.  For more information,
please see Error 38 at: http://www.realaudio.com/help/errors";  I checked
this out, but it didn't help me at all.  As root everything works fine.  I
ran ldconfig, but that didn't seem to help.

Can anyone make this thing work?

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