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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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