Re: Realplayer seg.fault

[Russell Shaw <rjshaw@iprimus.com.au>]

Brian Potkin wrote:
> 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.

Thanks, that site has debs: http://marillat.free.fr/dists/testing/main/binary-i386/
I just added: deb http://marillat.free.fr/ testing main
to sources.list, then did apt-get update.