Mike Hore wrote:
Now my next question is another newbie question -- I want to try to run
the Helix audio player, so I've downloaded the latest PPC build
hxplay-11.1.1.1404-linux-powerpc64
The problem is, I don't really know what to do next. I've uncompressed
it into a directory "helix" in my home directory, and there's a whole
lot of stuff there including a Bin directory with an executable file
called "setup" that I guess I'm supposed to run, but I can't run it from
there, and don't know either where to put it or how to change my paths
or whatever it is so I can run it from the command line. Sorry for
asking such basic questions...
OK, I got it figured out. I checked my $PATH variable and found I
needed to either move the helix stuff into e.g. /usr/bin, or else
on the command line just type the complete path to the setup prog. This
worked, and I got Helix installed.
Now, never satisfied, I want to get streaming audio from sites that only
provide RealPlayer or WMP formats! These are proprietary, and so not
supported by Helix. Helix kindly tells me I need to download RealPlayer
11, but of course when I look there I find that while Linux packages are
available in RPM or DEB formats, it's x86 only (as usual).
Any suggestions? (Apart from switching to Intel, which I won't ever
ever do)
Cheers, Mike.
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Mike Hore mike_h...@aapt.net.au
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