Richard Blackburn wrote:
> Now, if I could get Real Player to go, I'd be firing on all cylinders.
> The instructions says to add LD_LIBRARY_PATH ... etc. to my .profile
> file. A complete search finds no ".profile" file that seems relevant.
> Anyone got a magic bullet for this?
Don't know about a magic bullet, but here goes.
.profile can exist in the home directory of any user where some shells
will look for it to get info like environment variables, setup aliases,
run programs, whatever. Instead of adding to the LD_LIBRARY_PATH in
.profile (which would affect only the user of the .profile in question)
you should add the directory where the realplayers libs exist to
/etd/ld.so.conf (which makes the changes global). After saving you
should run ldconfig, which will re-read ld.so.conf and do all its
linking magic.
I don't know where realplayers stores its libs since i've never
installed it on a linux box, hopefully you can work that out. If you
have just installed it perhaps the libs have been put in a standard
location (/usr/local/lib or somewhere) that is already in ld.so.conf and
so you would just need to run ldconfig as root to get it working.
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