Very Computer

I've installed the Real Audio player 5.0 RPM on my Linux system, but
every time I click on a link that's supposed to have Real Audio (or
video)
content, the real video player comes up but gives this error message:

File compression not supported. Cannot locate the requested RealAudio
decoder.

For more information, please see Error 38 at:
        http://www.realaudio.com/help/error

Naturally the web site referenced doesn't have any info on this error at
all.  I searched their database and found a similar reply and they said
that you need to make sure that all the old files are removed and to
reinstall the player again.

The thing is, this is a brand spanking new Linux machine... I just
installed
it a couple of days ago, so there are no "old" files to get rid of.

Also, I don't know where the rpm program installed them anyway.  I'm
very
new to this, you might be able to tell :-)

I'd appreciate any help.

Thanks!

- Corey

[snip]

Ok, I found out what was going on.  I'm posting this just in case
someone else might have the same problem.
When I went to the web site shown above, there was a header but
no contents.  This turns out to be a bug in Netscape.  When I viewed
the same page using Internet Explorer 5.0 on my wife's machine, it
came up just fine.

Unfortunately, the info on the Error 38 page didn't help.

I went through the index.htm page in the Real Video release again
and discovered that I needed to set my LD_LIBRARY_PATH bariable so
that it points to /usr/lib/Real.  Once I did that, the rvplayer came
up and started working perfectly.

- Corey

Quote:> How exactly do you set up LD_LIBRARY_PATH to point to /usr/lib/Real?

Timothy Buckelew

On Mon, 30 Nov 1998 12:35:06 -0500,

Quote:>> How exactly do you set up LD_LIBRARY_PATH to point to /usr/lib/Real?

>Timothy Buckelew

Assuming your using a standard bash shell open
up /etc/profile using vi or some other editor.

The, enter....

LD_LIBRARY_PATH = '/usr/lib/real/'
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH

...into it somewhere. Login again (to be sure) and type env,
you should see LD_LIBRARY_PATH = ....  in there somewhere.
If not it hasnt worked.

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