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 > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >
