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by **matthews-nosp..** » Sun, 30 Jul 2000 04:00:00

hello ...

i'm running FreeBSD 4.1 and using linux RealAudio 7.

It works quite well with one problem: the plugins. Do the plugins also work
under fbsd and so, how can you tell nutscape (i'm using 4.74) to use the
plugins.

the flash plugin in nutscape works really well, shouldn't the realaudio plugins
also work?

thanks ...

m.

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by **Tom Kea** » Sun, 30 Jul 2000 04:00:00

Quote:
> hello ...

> i'm running FreeBSD 4.1 and using linux RealAudio 7.

> It works quite well with one problem: the plugins. Do the plugins also work
> under fbsd and so, how can you tell nutscape (i'm using 4.74) to use the
> plugins.

Via $HOME/.mime.types ... considering the (lack of) documentation, i
guess it's a ``grey'' art to configure it by hand; the Netscape
menus under ``Help|About'' i think lead you to the right buttons to
push for plugins, to automatically update $HOME/.mime.types. Also
note that Netscape looks in its own local ``plugins'' subdirectory.
The documentation that comes with it, it you can find it, explains it.

If you installed Netscape through /usr/prts, go to the (sub)dir,
and do ``ls'' to see if there's a subdir called ``work''. If there
is, cd to it. There might further be a subdirectory called something
like Netscape-4.74; if so, cd to it. Read all the files with uppercase
names, and also anything under any subdirectory called doc(s).

This invokes a pet peeve of mine: so many folks glibly say ``RTFM''
or ``read the docs'' in one-liner answers, yet fail to mention the
documentation that occurs under the /usr/ports/* install dirs --- it
may get installed into /usr/share or /usr/local/share, but how's a
newbie supposed to know that?

That's really the best thing about installing from source rather
than from pkg --- you get *everything*, from the ``horse's mouth''. :)
FreeBSD ports serves it up on a silver platter.

Quote:
> the flash plugin in nutscape works really well, shouldn't the realaudio plugins
> also work?

Yes, it ~should~. Unfortunately, many site-managers don't understand
the concept of backward-compatibility; they think if you don't have
the latest-&-greatest RealPlayer --- which seems to forgo a lot of
backward compatibility ... tuff for you. I've learned to my chagrine,
if you've got an old RA and the site only supports the newest RA ---
not gonna happen ... (unless you do Windows) ...

cheers,
tom
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by **Davis Dohert** » Sun, 30 Jul 2000 04:00:00

Quote:
>hello ...

>i'm running FreeBSD 4.1 and using linux RealAudio 7.

>It works quite well with one problem: the plugins. Do the plugins also work
>under fbsd and so, how can you tell nutscape (i'm using 4.74) to use the
>plugins.

>the flash plugin in nutscape works really well, shouldn't the realaudio plugins
>also work?

>thanks ...

>m.

If you installed it manually (not through ports or packages), there should
be two shell scripts in the RealPlayer7 directory, mimeinstall.sh and
pluginstall.sh - run these and you should be good to go (it worked for
me).

-Davis

"He who knows best knows how little he knows."
-Thomas Jefferson

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