Re: RealPlayer dissapeared
From: Temlakos (temlakos_at_gmail.com)
Date: 04/30/05
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Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 16:37:43 -0400 To: sam@mbz.org, For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@redhat.com>
Sam Williams wrote:
> 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
>
I had a similar problem. I solved it by removing HelixPlayer completely,
then issuing the command "rpm -e realplayer*", and finally acquiring a
new RealPlayer RPM and issuing "rpm -Uvh realplayer*"
Temlakos
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