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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

> 
> > > but what I am really after is realaudio and mplayer so I can listen to 
> > > online radio. 
> > 
> >    The RealPlayer works with the two extra libraries from SW8.1, and X.
> I have glibc-so-2.2.5 which Opera also needed.  What is the other library 
> that it needs?

Does it need the cxx library as well?

  
> > > I tried to install the large rp8*.bin file by typing rp8* and it 
> > > and it tried to install, gave me three pages of Warning:  
> > > Translation_table syntaxerror:,  Unknown keysym name:  osfDown  and 
> > > much 
> > > more of the same, followed by a final 'Segmentation fault'.
I fixed this problem by copying over XKeySymDB from xlib.tgz.  I do not 
have X installed, just the minimum files needed to make Xvesa work.



Now when I try to install realplayer8 it says it cannot find libXp.so.6 . 
It is in /usr/X11R6/bin where I copied libXp.so.6.2 (from xbin.tgz) and 
made a link from libXp.so.6 (ln -s libXp.so.6.2 libXp.so.6 as in the 
doinstall.sh script).  This file and this link have the same md5sum 
as on a computer where RP8 would install (which has the complete xbin and 
xlib installed).  ldd rp8* also informs me that I am missing libXp.so.6

What the heck is going on?  A web search gave no clues.
Perhaps RP wants a later version of libXp?  But why can't ldd find libXp 
when it is there?  

Would it possibly help to install the complete xbin (and then remove 
irrelevant parts, of which there are many, one at a time)?

I note that there is also a libXp.6.2.a or some such thing which I did 
NOT copy over - but I think that is used for statically compiling 
programs.   I was trying to compile an X program on that computer and must 
have installed the relevant package for compiling in X.

I also tried this on a second computer with the same results.  Same linux 
setup (I copied over the same files to all my linux computers).  


The second computer is the one where I tried to use SVGAlib without 
specifying chipset VESA and it crashed while trying to use bmv with 
'uncorrectable error'.  Running e2fsck from BL3 loop claimed it was clean 
but I still get lots of error messages when I boot BL2 and will probably 
have to reinstall.  Superblock problems.
EXT2-fs error .... wrong free blocks count in super block, stored = 
512049, counted = 503456. ....
error=0x40 UncorrectableError  LBAsect.......

Linux can be frustrating.  Time to install sound on the computer where 
realaudio claims to have installed itself properly.