On Saturday 10 March 2001 07:47 pm, you wrote:
> On Sunday 11 March 2001 04:23, Romanator wrote:
> > Robert Maynord wrote:
> > > Mandrake Folks:
> > >
> > > Today, I downloaded the Real Player version 8.0 RPM. When I tried to
> > > install, I received the "incorrect architecture" message some have
> > > referred to (I feel confident that I have the correct version). One
> > > person on a news group suggested that version 7 worked, but I found
> > > that it is no longer at the Real Audio site.
> > >
> > > I am using Mandrake 7.2 on a P200 with KDE 2.1.
> > >
> > > Any suggestions would be very much appreciated!
> > >
> > > Robert
> >
> > Download the ".bin" Unix/Linux version of RealPlayer8. That's what I'm
> > using with no problems.
>
> With the .bin version I get a core dump towards the end of installation.
> It doesn't seem to have any impact on the program itself though.
> I also observed that if I were to create a Real Player application icon on
> the kde 2.0 desktop it will not work until I select the "Run in terminal"
> option. Doesn't seem normal to me. Any ideas? Thanks very much.
I was just messing with it on my RH machine and had the same thing occur.
The only way I could figure how to deal with it was to make a link in a
terminal.
ln -s /usr/local/RealPlayer8/realplay /home/<user>/Desktop
HTH,
-s
