RealPlayer dissapeared
Kenny Gow
kgfedora at swbell.net
Sat Apr 30 04:50:04 UTC 2005
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.
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