Re: How to get realplayer and mplayer to properly install?
On Sat, 2005-10-08 at 00:52 -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote:
> gary wrote:
>
> >Hello - I recently installed Sarge and have been using synaptic to
> >install packages.
> >when I install realplayer, the icon appears in Applications> multimedia
> >but I'm unable to
> >get realplayer started. Nor will it start when files are directed to
> >use /user/bin/realplay.
> >mplayer never installs any startup icon, yet I downloaded the k-6
> >version which i believe
> >includes a gui. Never got mplayer running .
> >
> >I have: a few years linux experience
> > limited debian experience
> > gnome desktop
> >
> >What am I not doing? gary
> >
> >
> >
> >
> 1) Are you able to play sound in general or is the problem with
> realplayer/mplayer?
> 2) How did you install realplayer/mplayer?
>
> 3) If you do
>
> realplay somefile.rm
>
> on a shell then what happens? Is there any error? or do you not hear sound?
>
>
> mplayer has no gui AFAIK. It is a command line player. If you need a
> gui, I think it is called gmplayer.
>
>
> --
> Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
> Graduate Student, MAE
> Cornell University
> http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/
>
!. Realplayer never activates . period
2. all updates and packages were installed with synaptic
3. I go to a site that uses Realplayer - i try to download - open
with /usr/bin/realplay
nothing
4. I downloaded package mplayer-k6 , not mplayer-nogui - I expect to
find a gui.
5. my current theory ( could change at any moment ) is that something
is in the wrong
directory.
gary
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