What is the best way of installing real player for ubuntu?

[Alex Gakuru]

Hi, though not what you asked, I find Audacious and XMMS pretty compact players.

sudo apt-get install xmms  (From http://www.xmms.org)

OR
http://howto.landure.fr/gnu-linux/ubuntu-gutsy-gibbon/audacious-media-player-1-4-for-ubuntu-7-10-gutsy-gibbon

Alex

On Nov 25, 2007 1:39 PM, alan c <aeclist at candt.waitrose.com> wrote:
> Charlie Dorff wrote:
> > Hi...
> > I was wondering if someone could explain the best way of installing real player for ubuntu. Thanks.
> > Charlie
>
> (I do not use realplayer now, I use mplayer and the win32 codecs -
> however, the GUI and facilities are not as good as realplayer)
>
> ====================================================
> Installation Instructions (from a real.com site, slightly edited) -
>
> Download the Realplayer .bin file from http://www.real.com/linux
> Ensure that the .bin file you downloaded is executable.
> Obviously being careful about typos and upper or lower case
> You can make the .bin file executable by running the
>   "chmod a+x RealPlayer10GOLD.bin" command from a terminal window.
>
> (this works if the file is in your user area. If it is elsewhere, you
> may have use sudo command to precede it)
>
> The following commands are expected to be run from a terminal, and you
> will usually need to have changed directory to be sitting in the
> directory which contains the file before you execute the command
>
>   - Run the .bin file by typing "./RealPlayer10GOLD.bin"
>
> or
>
>   - Run the .bin file by typing "sudo ./RealPlayer10GOLD.bin"
> this will allow the option of installing into a system wide location
> such as
> /opt   which you can state at the appropriate prompt,
> otherwise it will be installed in your user area only. With this there
> may be some issues subsequently with automatic starting, I am not sure
>
>   Follow the prompts provided to finish installing the player.
>
> I would usually use 'system wide' install, although I guess I would be
> more vulnerable to security issues from use of an alien binary than if
> I restricted things to a user level install only.
>
> I think a sort of usual place to choose the install directory is /opt
>
>   - When you launch the player for the first time, a set-up assistant
> will take you through configuring your player.
>
>   - Enjoy your RealPlayer10 for Linux!
> ====================================================
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