Re: RealPlayer dissapeared

From: Sam Williams (sam_at_mbz.org)
Date: 04/30/05

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Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 10:29:07 -0500

    On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 23:50 -0500, Kenny Gow wrote:
    > Sam Williams wrote:
    > > Dear people,
    > >
    > > I had RealPlayer installed, running nicely, included in KDE and Gnome
    > > menus, and when I said Open to an MP3 file it would invoke RP and play
    > > it. Recently ran up2date and RealPlayer disappeared from menus, desktop
    > > and also disappeared from whatever list tells OS what to do with an MP3
    > > type of file--it now opens Helix player that pops up error message
    > > saying I should use RealPlayer.
    > >
    > > Found realplayer files several places on disk, tried to reinstall. But,
    > > it said that RP was already installed and then stopped. I'd be happy to
    > > un-install then reinstall if I knew how. Wouldn't mind fixing Helix so
    > > it would do the job. Just want to play my MP3s. Please tell me how.
    > >
    > > Thanks,
    > >
    > > Sam
    > >
    > The latest HelixPlayer update overwrote the menu entry for RealPlayer.
    >
    > I recommend you get the latest version of RealPlayer (10.0.4) which
    > addresses some security vulnerabilities. See here:
    >
    > http://www.fedoraforum.org/
    >
    > Once you get the latest RealPlayer rpm file, you can update your
    > RealPlayer installation with the rpm -Uvh command.
    >
    > --
    > Because words are imperfect, every generation rewrites itself.
    >
    Kenny,

    Thanks for otherwise great advice but unfortunately, Real was up-to-date
    when the HelixPlayer update struck. I tried your rpm command and
    several variations. All I ran, so far, return either '[RP]is already
    installed' (even when adding -f to force) or on -e versions, I get '[RP]
    is not installed'. Have you other ideas on how I can recover RP? Which
    is the executable file for RealPlayer? Wouldn't mind invoking from
    terminal. Would prefer changing file associations in KDE gui.

    Thanks,

    Sam 

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