Real Player or Helix Player on Warty?

Kevin C. Smith kevin at linuxsmith.com
Sun Nov 21 16:35:28 UTC 2004


On Sun, 2004-11-21 at 05:37 +0000, khad wrote:
> Somehow it did seem like a good idea to use alien and then install the
> resulting .deb, but I can't help but think that the installer works
> just fine and that seems like an extra (useless?) step. Is there any
> benefit to using alien on the .rpm and using apt to install the
> resulting .deb? Or does it not matter?
> 
> 
> -- 
> khad
> 
I've been using the official installer, which works just fine. 
I install into /usr/local/share/realplayer and then go with the
defaults.

Kevin





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