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Problem: on Debian Sarge: On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 11:22:01AM +0100, Robin Cornelius wrote: > > Realplayer is working perfectly for me now on my home system with > Firefox. I gave up with Helix player for the minute. So this is a > summary of the install. > > Download www.real.com/linux/ > > Its binary only so thats i386 compatability only. (Where as helix is > opensource and so can be rebuilt for other ARCH's) > > firstly download the RealPlayer10Gold.bin file > > chmod +x RealPlayer10Gold.bin > > Ensure firefox and/or mozilla is installed before running the realplayer > setup > > and run > > ./RealPlayer10Gold.bin > > For system wide install at the options set the folder to > /usr/local/RealPlayer or whatever you want. > Installed in $HOME/.realplayer > edit /etc/profile and add to the PATH line real players path (example > taken from my system) > > PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games:/usr/RealPlayer" > Added > logout and back in, jobs done. Logged out and logged back in > > In firefox go to the following URL > > about:plugsins > > and check for "Helix DNA Plugin: RealPlayer G2 Plug-In Compatible" Installed Helix DNA Plugin: RealPlayer G2 Plug-In Compatible version 0.4.0.552 built with gcc 3.2.0 on May 13 2005 audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin RealPlayer Plugin Metafile rpm Yes > > The go to bbc.co.uk/news and watch the video news :-) I get the following error message "could not find an appropriate hxplay or realplay in the system path to use as an embedded player" and then when I click ok; firefox closes I get the same message when I try and listen to the radio (www.bbc.co.uk/radio) but then firefox continues Went to the bbc site http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/audiohelp_nix.shtml and will try some of the suggestions there. If I want to uninstall RealPlayer and start again installing it as root, how do I uninstall? Henry
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