Real Player

steve scalvin at nventure.com
Sun Oct 3 09:37:15 UTC 2004


On Fri, 2004-10-01 at 21:56 -0400, volvoguy wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Oct 2004 17:46:09 -0700 (PDT), Jeff DeLoach
> <jdeloach23 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Whats the best way to aquire realplayer for Ubuntu?
> 
> www.real.com
> 
> I've had good luck with the installer that Real provides. (not the
> RPMs). I just downloaded, made it executable (chmod +x), and executed
> it (./REALinstallerwhatever.bin).
> 
> It was mentioned here a week or so ago that the installer from Real
> would replace some important system files, but if that's true I
> haven't seen it. The linux version appears to behave itself. :)
> 
> Aaron
> 

Yeah, I finally got the installers to work. First I installed Helix,
which didn't play any Real formats. So then I installed RealPlayer and
it won't open. So, I don't know. Maybe the PPC version doesn't work on
my machine. 

steve





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