Re: Realplayer only works as root
On Tue, 20 Oct 1998, Eric wrote:
> 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?
Put the realplayer .rpm file in /tmp. Install rvplayer 5.0-6 from slink.
It will handle the .rpm format and install/configure everything correctly.
Bob
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