19th
Get Rhapsody Working on Ubuntu 8.04 and Firefox 3.0.1
Welcome to another edition of “fixing crap” on Ubuntu. To get Rhapsody working with Ubuntu 8.04, you need to follow these steps:
open terminal
cd ~/Desktop
wget http://forms.real.com/real/player/download.html?f=unix/rhapx/RhapsodyPlayerEngine_Inst_Linux.xpi
After the plugin is downloaded to the desktop, double-click it to open the xpi file with ‘Archive Manager’(AM). After the xpi file is open in AM, you will see something like nprhapengine.so. This is the actual rhapsody plugin. Drag this file from the xpi archive to your desktop.
To get rhapsody working with Firefox, you will need to move the Rhapsody plugin to the proper directory, which in this case is your ~/.mozilla/plugins directory. On my install, this directory did not exist, so we’ll create it first.
Back in terminal type:
mkdir ~/.mozilla/plugins
mv nprhapengine.so ~/.mozilla/plugins
Rhapsody should be rockin and rolling now.
