Re: getting realplayer to work in firefox...
On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 11:57:22PM +0000, Michael Fothergill wrote:
> Dear folks,
>
> I downloaded a file RealPlayer10GOLD.bin from the real player site that I
> think is a plug in for Firefox that would let me watch some movies with
> sound.
>
> I did chmod a+x on the file.
>
> rwxr-xr-x 1 mikef mikef 5802563 2007-01-09 11:32 RealPlayer10GOLD.bin
>
> I am not exactly sure how to install it into firefox.
>
> I tried running it.
>
> spc1-burn4-0-0-cust262:/home/mikef# /home/mikef/RealPlayer10GOLD.bin
> /home/mikef/RealPlayer10GOLD.bin: error while loading shared libraries:
> libstdc+ +.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
>
> Being root doesn't help.
>
> Suggestions welcome.
>
> Michael Fothergill
>
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Add debian-multimedia.org [Christian Marillat's site] to your apt-get
sources list - get Realplayer from there. One reason Debian proper
dropped it was that Debian couldn't modify it. Among the others were
rampant 32 bit-ness and that it depended on the obsolete libstdc
That's what you get for commercial software, I suppose.
Andy
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