Q: howto listen to rael audio in 74-bit edgy?

[D. R. Evans]

On 16/07/07, Rod Joyce <werepenguin at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

>
> The easiest work-round for listening to radio streams is simply to click
> the "Listen using stand alone RealPlayer" link on the left hand side of the
> BBC Player - of course you need to have RealPlayer installed on your system.
> On my system (64-bit Feisty Kubuntu) this usually  works with Konqueror and
> FireFox, although sometimes I have to close RealPlayer and open it again to
> get any sound. Even though I have cable broadband, I have to admit the sound
> quality is not all that good. I can't get RealPlayer to play any of the BBC
> video streams properly - the sound is OK, but the picture freezes or lags
> behind the audio.

I can't get realplayer to install at all.

I have tried several times, over the course of several weeks, and each
time I go through the following sequence:

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n7dr at compaq-64:/tmp$ ls -al R*
-rw-r--r-- 1 n7dr n7dr 5802563 2007-08-04 11:02 RealPlayer10GOLD.bin
n7dr at compaq-64:/tmp$ chmod +x Re*
n7dr at compaq-64:/tmp$ ./R*bin
bash: ./RealPlayer10GOLD.bin: No such file or directory
n7dr at compaq-64:/tmp$ su
Password:
root at compaq-64:/tmp# ./R*bin
bash: ./RealPlayer10GOLD.bin: No such file or directory
root at compaq-64:/tmp# ls -al *GOLD*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 n7dr n7dr 5802563 2007-08-04 11:02 RealPlayer10GOLD.bin
root at compaq-64:/tmp# ./*GOLD*
bash: ./RealPlayer10GOLD.bin: No such file or directory
root at compaq-64:/tmp#

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So ls can see the file just fine, but for some reason, even though its
executable bit is set, I don't seem to be able to run it :-(