On Sat, 26 Jun 1999, Mason Loring Bliss wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 26, 1999 at 03:56:23PM -0400, Laine Stump wrote:
> 
> > 1) This installed okay, but can't seem to play any content. It keeps giving
> > messages about "compressed files not supported" etc, even though I'm not
> > chossing any G2 content. Does anybody have a Real player installed that
> > actually works?
> 
> Yeah. The RealPlayer FAQ / troubleshooting guide discusses this, but you
> basically need to point RealPlayer at its libraries, as:
> 
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/mason/rvplayer5.0;        export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
> 
> In this case, rvplayer5.0 is a directory in my home directory that contains
> all RealPlayer's shared libraries. This would probably be better situated in
> some system place, but... <shrug>
> 
> Anyway, the line, above, is inserted in my /usr/pkgsrc/bin/navigator-[foo]
> script.

	Would it make sense to move the rvplayer binary and put a wrapper
	to set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH in its place?

	Actually... Mason, any chance I could persuade you to come up with
	an FAQ entry for rvplayer? :)

		David/absolute

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