Help installing Realplayer plugin [solved]

[DarkFoss]

Hi,

 

I'm hoping someone can help me finish this.

I'm following the directions at http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/linux.html

and using the command page from http://www.ss64.com/bash/ln.html

 

I've used those pages to install Flash, Java, and Adobe Acrobat Reader.

 

 

I've done the 1st 2 steps but I don't quite understand step 3.

 

1. Install RealPlayer 10.

Done

 

2. Copy nphelix.so to your Mozilla plugins directory and nphelix.xpt to your Mozilla components directory.

Done

 

3. Make sure a symbolic link to the realplay script is in your PATH.

 

What I don't understand is where to make the symlink command from. The mozilla-firefox plugin folder perhaps or the mozilla-firefox components folder ? I wouldn't know how to remove a symlink and don't want to mess up the browser on this last step.

 

I'm pretty sure the following is the right command;

 

ln -s /usr/local/RealPlayer/realplay ./realplay

 

Probably something obvious :P

 

Thanks in advance :D

 

 

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[DarkFoss]

Solved Thanks to rolfp on the Mandriva board.

 

I misunderstood I thought I had to create a symlink to a specific folder like I had to for Java. :o

Rolfp told me to do echo $PATH

it returned

/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin/:/usr/games:/usr/lib/qt3//bin:/home/darkfoss/bin:/usr/lib/qt3//bin

 

then to do ln -s /usr/local/RealPlayer/realplay /usr/local/bin

 

to set permissions sigh so much to learn :P