Missing mplayer libraries (SOLVED)

Smith, Herb herb.smith at boeing.com
Fri Nov 17 17:02:15 UTC 2006


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Malone [mailto:ibmalone at gmail.com] 
> Sent: Friday, November 17, 2006 9:48 AM
> To: For users of Fedora
> Subject: Re: Missing mplayer libraries (SOLVED)
> 
> On 17/11/06, Smith, Herb <herb.smith at boeing.com> wrote:
> > All,
> >
> > Got Livna hooked up, got Mplayer going, plugin, skins, and 
> all....very 
> > sweet!
> > Thanks so much for your patience and help.
> >
> > Had one issue with a permission denied on a thing called 
> libavformat.
> > Some searching on the web indicated that this could be solved by 
> > changing SELinux from "enforcing" to "permissive". I did 
> that and it 
> > works fine, however, is that a BAD thing to do?
> >
> 
> It's a very soothing thing to do.  The 'correct' solution 
> seems to be to use chcon -t texrel_shlib_t on every file that 
> has this problem (use dmesg to hunt them down).  This solved 
> problems I had with video not displaying for RealPlayer 
> (among other things).
> 
> --
> imalone
> 

Ian, Craig, 

Thanks.  It seemed that there should be a more file-specific way to do
this.  I guess there is another learning curve staring at me... Good
excuse to buy that SELinux book.  Is the O'Riley one any good? 

Thanks.
Herb


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