On Tue, 20 Oct 1998, Eric wrote: > I downloaded and installed the latest version of realplayer recently. I > got the Redhat package and used alien to convert it to a deb. It seemed > to install fine, but when I run it as a normal user and try to play > something (even the welcome.rm) it says "File compression not supported. > Cannot locate the requested RealAudio decoder. For more information, > please see Error 38 at: http://www.realaudio.com/help/errors"; I checked > this out, but it didn't help me at all. As root everything works fine. I > ran ldconfig, but that didn't seem to help. > > Can anyone make this thing work?
Put the realplayer .rpm file in /tmp. Install rvplayer 5.0-6 from slink. It will handle the .rpm format and install/configure everything correctly. Bob
