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Real Player installation - HOW?
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| jamiil 2007-02-16, 1:14 am |
| I have just installed Realplayer in /usr/bin/RealPlayer, the files
show in the directory and in the 'Aplications->Media-Real Player 10',
however, it will not run (!?).
What have I done wrong? can any body help?
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| David A' Rebel 2007-02-16, 1:14 am |
| jamiil wrote:
> I have just installed Realplayer in /usr/bin/RealPlayer, the files
> show in the directory and in the 'Aplications->Media-Real Player 10',
> however, it will not run (!?).
> What have I done wrong? can any body help?
A little more information as to what you did would help us to help you.
Did you install a deb, a bin or what, where did you get it from ?
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| Peter J Ross 2007-02-16, 7:12 pm |
| On 15 Feb 2007 20:25:35 -0800, jamiil <jalqadir@gmail.com> wrote in
alt.os.linux.debian:
> I have just installed Realplayer in /usr/bin/RealPlayer, the files
> show in the directory and in the 'Aplications->Media-Real Player 10',
> however, it will not run (!?).
> What have I done wrong? can any body help?
Instead of installing a binary from real.com, I suggest using
Christian Marillat's unofficial Debian repository.
E.g, I have this line in my /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/os/Linux/di...bian-multimedia testing main
It provides a recent realplayer package.
You may want to pick a different repository from the list at
<http://www.debian-multimedia.org>, and you may want to change
"testing" to "stable" or "sid" or whatever flavour of Debian you're
using.
You'll also need the w32codecs package from the same source.
--
PJR :-)
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| jamiil 2007-02-17, 1:12 am |
| On Feb 16, 12:13 am, David A' Rebel <r...@rebellion.enzed.corn> wrote:
> jamiil wrote:
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> A little more information as to what you did would help us to help you.
> Did you install a deb, a bin or what, where did you get it from ?
Thank for the prompt response, it was bin file. I don't think there is
a deb one, is there one?
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| John Hasler 2007-02-17, 1:12 am |
| jamiil wrote:
> I have just installed Realplayer in /usr/bin/RealPlayer...
Local packages should go under /usr/local (or in some cases under /opt).
> I don't think there is a deb one, is there one?
toncho/~ 4 apt-cache show realplayer
Package: realplayer
Priority: optional
Section: graphics
Installed-Size: 15092
Maintainer: Christian Marillat <marillat@debian.org>
Architecture: i386
Source: realplay
Version: 10.0.8-0.1
Depends: libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.7.2), libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-21), libgcc1 (>= 1:3.4.1-3), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.6.0), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.6.0), libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.8.1), libstdc++5 (>= 1:3.3.4-1), libx11-6 | xlibs (>> 4.1.0), libxext6 | xlibs (>> 4.1.0)
Conflicts: helix-player
Filename: pool/main/r/realplay/realplayer_10.0.8-0.1_i386.deb
Size: 6131168
MD5sum: 70b2f40310c6a6ae3bcbefac6d657995
SHA1: 89e22c640ca02028ac4e8b6d7a3439d909d2b468
SHA256: f7c90dc4d0b459ad35b22bd294973b6946d577d7
e50cc3ac8cec0ed7c658470c
Description: RealPlayer 10 based on the Open Source Helix player
RealPlayer 10 for Linux is based on the Open Source Helix player.
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| David A' Rebel 2007-02-17, 7:12 am |
| jamiil wrote:
> On Feb 16, 12:13 am, David A' Rebel <r...@rebellion.enzed.corn> wrote:
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> Thank for the prompt response, it was bin file. I don't think there is
> a deb one, is there one?
Ubuntu has them on their commercial repos
So you installed it as root
by chmod a+x nameof file
then ./nameoffile ?
Did you allow it to choose its own directory or did you put it in a specific
one ?
Did you allow it to create the symbolic links ?
what happens if you open a terminal and type realplay ?
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| jamiil 2007-02-17, 7:12 am |
| On Feb 16, 5:49 pm, Peter J Ross <p...@example.invalid> wrote:
> On 15 Feb 2007 20:25:35 -0800, jamiil <jalqa...@gmail.com> wrote in
> alt.os.linux.debian:
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> Instead of installing a binary from real.com, I suggest using
> Christian Marillat's unofficial Debian repository.
>
> E.g, I have this line in my /etc/apt/sources.list:
>
> debhttp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/os/Linux/distributions/debian-multimediatesting main
>
> It provides a recent realplayer package.
>
> You may want to pick a different repository from the list at
> <http://www.debian-multimedia.org>, and you may want to change
> "testing" to "stable" or "sid" or whatever flavour of Debian you're
> using.
>
> You'll also need the w32codecs package from the same source.
>
> --
> PJR :-)
Thanks!
I am now doing the download
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| jamiil 2007-02-17, 7:12 am |
| I chose the diectory it was '/usr/sbin/RealPlayer'
Is there a way to uninstall the RealPlayerxxxxxx.bin?
I have apt-getted a version from a site suggested by John Hasler, but
still the '.ra' are not working.
What other information can I provide to make it easy on you folks to
help me.
T.I.A.
On Feb 16, 9:34 pm, David A' Rebel <r...@rebellion.enzed.corn> wrote:
> jamiil wrote:
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> Ubuntu has them on their commercial repos
>
> So you installed it as root
> by chmod a+x nameof file
>
> then ./nameoffile ?
>
> Did you allow it to choose its own directory or did you put it in a specific
> one ?
> Did you allow it to create the symbolic links ?
> what happens if you open a terminal and type realplay ?
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| John Hasler 2007-02-17, 7:12 am |
| jamiil wrote:
> I chose the diectory it was '/usr/sbin/RealPlayer'
Why? That's for "system" stuff like useradd.
> Is there a way to uninstall the RealPlayerxxxxxx.bin?
How did you install it?
> I have apt-getted a version from a site suggested by John Hasler, but
> still the '.ra' are not working.
What, _exactly_, did you try? BTW I find that vlc does everything I need.
--
John Hasler
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| jamiil 2007-02-17, 1:12 pm |
| On Feb 16, 11:02 pm, John Hasler <jhas...@debian.org> wrote:
> jamiil wrote:
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> Why? That's for "system" stuff like useradd.
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> How did you install it?
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> What, _exactly_, did you try? BTW I find that vlc does everything I need.
> --
> John Hasler
I did the same everybody does when installing RealPlayerxxxxx.bin,
with the exeption of choosing a different directory. Have you ever
intalled RealPlayerxxxxx.bin?
'apt-get install realplayer' [!?] is there a easier to get
applications than apt-getting under debian?
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| John Hasler 2007-02-17, 1:12 pm |
| jamiil writes:
> I did the same everybody does when installing RealPlayerxxxxx.bin, with
> the exeption of choosing a different directory. Have you ever intalled
> RealPlayerxxxxx.bin?
No. I install only from source or Debian packages. I avoid closed-source
whenever possible. However, I was asking what you did when you found that
"the '.ra' are not working".
--
John Hasler
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| jamiil 2007-02-17, 7:11 pm |
| On Feb 17, 11:21 am, John Hasler <jhas...@debian.org> wrote:
> jamiil writes:
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> No. I install only from source or Debian packages. I avoid closed-source
> whenever possible. However, I was asking what you did when you found that
> "the '.ra' are not working".
> --
> John Hasler
Thanks John,
I did nothing, that's it.
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| David A' Rebel 2007-02-17, 7:11 pm |
| jamiil wrote:
> On Feb 17, 11:21 am, John Hasler <jhas...@debian.org> wrote:
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> Thanks John,
> I did nothing, that's it.
What error codes if any get reported if you type realplay from a
terminal ?
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| ken scharf 2007-02-18, 1:12 pm |
| John Hasler wrote:
> jamiil wrote:
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> Local packages should go under /usr/local (or in some cases under /opt).
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> toncho/~ 4 apt-cache show realplayer
> Package: realplayer
> Priority: optional
> Section: graphics
> Installed-Size: 15092
> Maintainer: Christian Marillat <marillat@debian.org>
> Architecture: i386
> Source: realplay
> Version: 10.0.8-0.1
> Depends: libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.7.2), libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-21), libgcc1 (>= 1:3.4.1-3), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.6.0), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.6.0), libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.8.1), libstdc++5 (>= 1:3.3.4-1), libx11-6 | xlibs (>> 4.1.0), libxext6 | xlibs (>> 4.1.0)
> Conflicts: helix-player
> Filename: pool/main/r/realplay/realplayer_10.0.8-0.1_i386.deb
> Size: 6131168
> MD5sum: 70b2f40310c6a6ae3bcbefac6d657995
> SHA1: 89e22c640ca02028ac4e8b6d7a3439d909d2b468
> SHA256: f7c90dc4d0b459ad35b22bd294973b6946d577d7
e50cc3ac8cec0ed7c658470c
> Description: RealPlayer 10 based on the Open Source Helix player
> RealPlayer 10 for Linux is based on the Open Source Helix player.
> .
> RealPlayer 10 supports RealAudio, RealVideo 10, MP3, Ogg Vorbis and Theora,
> H263, AAC and more. Get ready for accelerated video, full screen playback,
> and a lot more to play.
> Bugs: mailto:marillat@debian.org
>
> Add a line like this to your /etc/apt/sources.list:
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> deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org sid main
>
> Modify as required if you are not running Sid. See
> <http://www.debian-multimedia.org> for more information.
IIRC, the realplayer.bin file is a self-extracting archive file that
must be run to install (like some .exe install files in 'doze.) Do a
file realplayer.bin and see what the output is. You probably have to
change the mode of realplayer.bin to make it executable before you can
run it to extract the ACTUAL run time files.
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