the empty quarter » bbciplayer http://www.martinhammer.com/blog Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn’t here. Sat, 04 Feb 2012 12:33:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 Install RealPlayer as a Firefox plug-in in Xubuntu http://www.martinhammer.com/blog/index.php/2009/04/install-realplayer-in-xubuntu-as-firefox-plug-in/ http://www.martinhammer.com/blog/index.php/2009/04/install-realplayer-in-xubuntu-as-firefox-plug-in/#comments Fri, 17 Apr 2009 11:42:16 +0000 martin http://www.martinhammer.com/blog/?p=3 I used the following steps to install RealPlayer in order to listen to BBC Radio. Although I did this on Xubuntu 8.04, it should also work for Ubuntu and other distros.

  1. Download and install RealPlayer for Linux from Real. I downloaded the deb package and installed it through gdebi.
  2. My install path was now /opt/real/RealPlayer. Check that the following two files exist:

    /opt/real/RealPlayer/mozilla/nphelix.so
    /opt/real/RealPlayer/mozilla/nphelix.xpt

  3. Copy those two files to the Firefox plugins directory (the code below should be a single line):

    sudo cp /opt/real/RealPlayer/mozilla/nphelix.* /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins/

  4. Restart Firefox. You can verify that Firefox has picked up the plugin under Tools > Add-ons > Plugins. It should say something along the lines of “Helix DNA Plugin: RealPlayer G2 Plug-In Compatible”.

Good luck and happy listening.

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