Announcing trplayer 1.0.0: An Accessible RealMedia Player

[brent harding]

When it says can't set display, it means it wants to start x-windows anduse
a graphical install, it plainly won't work unless you use x.
At 09:53 AM 7/5/00 -0500, you wrote:
>	I got and installed trplayer-1.0.1.  I also went to the
>Realnetworks web site which is only slightly less fun than
>slamming one's little finger in a car door or getting a root
>canal.
>
>	I got the UNIX version of RealPlayer7 after filling out
>the form to their satisfaction.
>
>	It is the self-extracting binary so I made it executable.
>I get a "can't open display" error from the binary and that's
>right about where things sit right now.  This is a Debian system
>and I have not yet included the sound support in the kernel, but
>one would expect the extractor to act like it was extracting,
>first.  There, then, might be a complaint about there being no
>sound support or maybe a crash, but it looks like the binary of
>rp7 isn't extracting.
>
>	Here are some issues that might be important.  I
>downloaded the RealPlayer 7 binary to a different system than the
>one it will reside on.  After the successful download, I copied
>the binary to the right system and uncompressed it.
>
>
>	I also shortened the name of the binary to make it easier
>to remember in my short memory.  If it looks at argv[0], then I
>am in trouble.
>
>	I even logged in through the console and SU'd to root and
>tried it from there and got the same results.
>
>	The trplayer executable is in /usr/local/bin, all ready
>to go.
>
>Martin
>
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