RealPlayer 8 woes on Redhat 9

Posted by creining | Filed under Linux/BSD

I was trying to get RealPlayer 8 working on my Redhat 9 workstation so I could listen to NPR and ran into a problem. Apparently, Redhat 9 uses a new threading library NPTL which does not work with RealPlayer. But, there is a solution by using the old LinuxThreads implementation by exporting an environment variable, LD_ASSUME_KERNEL. I moved the realplay binary to realplay.old and created a script called realplay containing: 

#!/bin/sh
LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1 /usr/lib/RealPlayer8/realplay.old $*

Permalink | November 22nd, 2003

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