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
