RealPlayer dissapeared

[Temlakos]

Sam Williams wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 23:50 -0500, Kenny Gow wrote:
> 
>>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.
>>
>>-- 
>>Because words are imperfect, every generation rewrites itself.
>>
> 
> Kenny,
> 
> Thanks for otherwise great advice but unfortunately, Real was up-to-date
> when the HelixPlayer update struck.  I tried your rpm command and
> several variations.  All I ran, so far, return either '[RP]is already
> installed' (even when adding -f to force) or on -e versions, I get '[RP]
> is not installed'.  Have you other ideas on how I can recover RP?  Which
> is the executable file for RealPlayer?  Wouldn't mind invoking from
> terminal.  Would prefer changing file associations in KDE gui.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Sam
> 

I had a similar problem. I solved it by removing HelixPlayer completely, 
then issuing the command "rpm -e realplayer*", and finally acquiring a 
new RealPlayer RPM and issuing "rpm -Uvh realplayer*"

Temlakos