Re: Realplayer seg.fault

[Brian Potkin <brian@copernicus.demon.co.uk>]

On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 12:24:00PM +1100, Russell Shaw wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I downloaded and ran the realplayer binary: rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs2.bin.
> It gets thru the installation and registration process, runs for a second,
> then seg.faults:
> 
> russell@main~: ./rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs2.bin
> Segmentation fault
> 
> I am in the audio group. What sound infrastructure do i need installed?

You might be better off getting the rpm version of the binary and
installing it using the realplayer deb which you will find at

http://marillat.free.fr/

This worked for me when the package was last included in Debian.
 
> Are there any alternatives to play realplayer .ram streaming audio, or
> .asx windows media player streaming audio?

mplayer does both.  You can get it via the previous URL.

Brian.