Re: Real Player as Plug-in
On Monday 17 September 2001 03:00, Erik Steffl wrote:
> I have also sent this to debian-user, I think other users might be
> interested...
>
> Bob Underwood wrote:
> ...
>
> > i looked at all the files in the /usr/lib/RealPlayer8 directory and
> > all appear correct. No mention of .rpm at all
> >
> > the .netscape/plugin-list file is below. I tried editing it by hand
> > without success. the rpm always reappears. how is this file generated?
> > how can it be edited?
>
> ...
>
> I don't think you have to care about this file, what you need to do is
> the following:
>
> edit /etc/mailcap (see also Mailcap file in realplayer distribution)
> and add the following (search for User Section Begins first):
>
<<snipped>>
>
> /etc/mime.types already has the line for realplayer, but you can also
> check it against Mime.types from reaplayer distribution), it looks like
> this (or multi-line format, I guess they have the same meaning):
>
<<<snipped again>>>
> the above should work no matter what WM/desktop you use (gnome, kde or
> other). For other browesrs you have to figure out where they have their
> plugins, I think mozilla, konqueror and galleon can use netscape plugins
> so you only need to copy them to proper directory (mozilla has plugins
> in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/).
>
> erik
neither mailcap nor mime.types was installed on my system. I just installed
the mime-support package and will edit it. Hopefully that will solve the
situation.
thanks
bob
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