On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 2:59 PM, P. Larry Nelson<[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Troy, > > Thanks, but no joy. > Installed the 2 you mentioned, restarted firefox and same sequence > of events occurs - Helix fires up but another box pops up right away > saying I need RealPlayer. This doesn't need a reboot does it?
No reboot should be needed. Are you using KDE or Gnome? [Also what does yum list '*mp3*' say. There may need to be another app. http://www.real.com/linux has the realplayer that should work with 4 (I think.. it may only work with 5 though :/). > Then I tried saving the MP3 file and double-clicked on it. > This time an app called Noatun pops up, but none of its buttons > do a damn thing. > > - Larry > > Troy Dawson wrote on 6/5/2009 3:46 PM: >> >> P. Larry Nelson wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I've always done linux admin on just servers, so I've never needed >>> to know about such things as playing MP3 files on linux. >>> >>> Well, now I've got a user with a fully patched SL4.6 laptop and >>> is trying to get an MP3 file to play. >>> >>> Go to a web page with an MP3 sample and click on it. >>> A dialog box pops up asking whether to save or use the default >>> application, which is something called Helix. Choose Helix. >>> Helix app box pops up but then another box opens and says one >>> needs to get RealPlayer. Fine, except I can only find RealPlayer-11 >>> which doesn't install on SL4.6 due to dependencies. >>> >>> So, my question is (at its simplest) how does one play MP3 files >>> on an SL4.6 box? Is there something other than Helix that doesn't >>> need RealPlayer? Or, if RealPlayer is indeed needed, where can >>> I find a version of RealPlayer that works on SL4.6? >>> Googling, so far, hasn't helped - but then it hasn't been an >>> exhaustive search. >>> >>> Thanks! >>> - Larry >> >> >> yum install gstreamer-plugins-mp3 xmms-mp3 >> >> Troy >> > > > -- > P. Larry Nelson (217-244-9855) | Systems/Network Administrator > 461 Loomis Lab | High Energy Physics Group > 1110 W. Green St., Urbana, IL | Physics Dept., Univ. of Ill. > MailTo:[email protected] | http://www.roadkill.com/lnelson/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > "Information without accountability is just noise." - P.L. Nelson > -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- BSD/GNU/Linux How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice"
