Hi Troy,

Thanks, but no joy.
Installed the 2 you mentioned, restarted firefox and same sequence
of events occurs - Helix fires up but another box pops up right away
saying I need RealPlayer.  This doesn't need a reboot does it?

Then I tried saving the MP3 file and double-clicked on it.
This time an app called Noatun pops up, but none of its buttons
do a damn thing.

- Larry

Troy Dawson wrote on 6/5/2009 3:46 PM:
> P. Larry Nelson wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've always done linux admin on just servers, so I've never needed
>> to know about such things as playing MP3 files on linux.
>>
>> Well, now I've got a user with a fully patched SL4.6 laptop and
>> is trying to get an MP3 file to play.
>>
>> Go to a web page with an MP3 sample and click on it.
>> A dialog box pops up asking whether to save or use the default
>> application, which is something called Helix.  Choose Helix.
>> Helix app box pops up but then another box opens and says one
>> needs to get RealPlayer.  Fine, except I can only find RealPlayer-11
>> which doesn't install on SL4.6 due to dependencies.
>>
>> So, my question is (at its simplest) how does one play MP3 files
>> on an SL4.6 box?  Is there something other than Helix that doesn't
>> need RealPlayer?  Or, if RealPlayer is indeed needed, where can
>> I find a version of RealPlayer that works on SL4.6?
>> Googling, so far, hasn't helped - but then it hasn't been an
>> exhaustive search.
>>
>> Thanks!
>> - Larry
> 
> 
> yum install gstreamer-plugins-mp3 xmms-mp3
> 
> Troy
> 


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