RealPlayer dissapeared

[Kenny Gow]

Sam Williams wrote:
> Dear people,
> 
> I had RealPlayer installed, running nicely, included in KDE and Gnome
> menus, and when I said Open to an MP3 file it would invoke RP and play
> it.  Recently ran up2date and RealPlayer disappeared from menus, desktop
> and also disappeared from whatever list tells OS what to do with an MP3
> type of file--it now opens Helix player that pops up error message
> saying I should use RealPlayer.
> 
> Found realplayer files several places on disk, tried to reinstall.  But,
> it said that RP was already installed and then stopped.  I'd be happy to
> un-install then reinstall if I knew how.  Wouldn't mind fixing Helix so
> it would do the job.  Just want to play my MP3s.  Please tell me how.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Sam
> 
The latest HelixPlayer update overwrote the menu entry for RealPlayer.

I recommend you get the latest version of RealPlayer (10.0.4) which
addresses some security vulnerabilities. See here:

http://www.fedoraforum.org/

Once you get the latest RealPlayer rpm file, you can update your
RealPlayer installation with the rpm -Uvh command.

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