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
