From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 30 22:48:47 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA6A816A400 for ; Thu, 30 Mar 2006 22:48:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from oliver-forward@charter.net) Received: from mxsf42.cluster1.charter.net (mxsf42.cluster1.charter.net [209.225.28.174]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC18243D5F for ; Thu, 30 Mar 2006 22:48:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from oliver-forward@charter.net) Received: from mxip26a.cluster1.charter.net (mxip26a.cluster1.charter.net [209.225.28.181]) by mxsf42.cluster1.charter.net (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k2UMmcbd024563 for ; Thu, 30 Mar 2006 17:48:38 -0500 Received: from 24-205-236-185.dhcp.snlo.ca.charter.com (HELO linux.linux) ([24.205.236.185]) by mxip26a.cluster1.charter.net with ESMTP; 30 Mar 2006 17:48:37 -0500 X-IronPort-AV: i="4.03,148,1141621200"; d="scan'208"; a="948460148:sNHT34299826" From: Oliver Iberien To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 14:48:36 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <200603181044.56421.oliver-forward@charter.net> <200603181245.23379.oliver-forward@charter.net> <441C8E85.9060703@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <441C8E85.9060703@daleco.biz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200603301448.36775.oliver-forward@charter.net> Cc: Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: No shared library support for realplayer? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 22:48:48 -0000 Thanks for your response! It turns out that it is perfectly easy to start RealPlayer from within, say Firefox. Starting it from a console with KDE going doesn't work, just as you say. I have found that a lot of the "errors" I have, such as this one, are really just mistaken assumptions that I have not yet realized I have made. Oliver On Saturday 18 March 2006 14:49, Kevin Kinsey wrote: > Oliver Iberien wrote: > >On Saturday 18 March 2006 11:22 am, Kris Kennaway wrote: > >>On Sat, Mar 18, 2006 at 10:44:56AM -0800, Oliver Iberien wrote: > >>>I installed Realplayer by running make clean install in its port > >>>directory. It all seemed to go fine, but it won't run, and no amount of > >>>Googling has yielded anything. Here is the debugging output. Has anyone > >>>got any ideas? > >>> > >>>Oliver > >>> > >>>(gdb) run > >>>Starting program: /usr/X11R6/lib/RealPlayer/realplay.bin > >>>warning: no shared library support for this OS / ABI > >>> > >>>** ERROR **: Unable to open display > >>>aborting... > >> > >>Doesn't this just mean you forgot to set DISPLAY? > >> > >>Kris > > > > Thanks very much for your reply. It's possible, especially as I don't > > know how! Could you tell me where I would do that and what it should be > > set to? > > I guess a question that is obvious to many of us is, "are you attempting > to run realplayer from the console?" > > It is a GUI app, so you would need to start it after or along with an > X session. For example, start X, run a xterm, and then run realplay... > If you are trying to run realplay from console, then the "unable to > open display" error would be, well, expected. > > Pardon my forwardness, I just thought it might be worth mentioning. > > Kevin Kinsey