Re: RealPlayer7 causes Netscape 4.72/3 bus error on startup
On Sun, Jul 23, 2000 at 11:44:27PM +0000, Pollywog wrote:
>
> On 23-Jul-2000 Rick Macdonald wrote:
> >
> > Oh, I hadn't noticed that there was a deb for installing realplayer. I had
> > removed the whole lot, so just now I reinstalled all the 4.73 debs
> > including the realplayer, and guess what -- it works fine now. I don't
> > know why. I had been installing the realplayer with it's own installer,
> > not the rpm file that the deb wrapper uses.
> >
> > The javascript pages (bigbrother2000) also seem more stable with this
> > 4.73.
> >
> > Beats me why!
>
> I uninstalled the RealPlayer package I had installed with the Debian install
> package. I made a new Deb package using Alien and the RPM package I
> downloaded and it works much better.
>
> Now I am trying to decide how to have Netscape play mp3 files.
> Plugger doesn't seem to cut it.
Do you have mpg123 installed? Plugger suggests, but does not depend
on it. It is necessary for playing mp3 files via plugger, however.
Bob
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Bob Nielsen, N7XY nielsen@oz.net
Bainbridge Island, WA http://www.oz.net/~nielsen
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