According to Bob Liesenfeld: While burning my CPU.
>
> Randy Cone wrote:
> >
> > Folks,
> >
> > Has anyone had any luck getting RealAudio player 5.0 to work for Linux
> > i386?
> > When I install the program, I get:
> > File compression not supported. Cannot locate the requested RealAudio
> > decoder.
>
> Yup, this one drove me nuts as well till I got it figured out. Here is how I
> got it to work:
>
> First, unzip the distribution. Then put the libraries that come with rvplayer
> in some common location (I put them in /usr/local/lib/rvplayer). Then, in your
> .profile file (or in one of the system wide start-up scripts for universal
> access), put in something like this:
>
> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/local/lib/rvplayer
Would not an entry in /etc/ld.so.conf do the same thing, after running
ldconfig ?
Normaly /usr/local/lib would be found in /etc/ld.so.conf
But i could be wrong.
>
> Then put the rvplayer executable in someplace like /usr/local/bin. Now when
> you execute it, it will find the libs it needs to play.
>
> Good luck!
>
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