Want Realplayer in Edgy?

[Ulrich Steffens]

Am Sonntag, den 29.10.2006, 20:32 +1300 schrieb Professor Wagstaff:
> On Sun, 2006-10-29 at 01:49 -0500, Daniel T. Chen wrote:
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> > Professor Wagstaff wrote:
> > > Have added Canonical Commercial repository but still No Realplayer in
> > > Edgy synaptic? Have i missed something? I had it running sweet in
> > > Dapper.
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> > The edgy-commercial repository currently is empty. You need to use the
> > 'realplay' package in dapper-commercial.
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> > Thanks,
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> > Daniel T. Chen            crimsun at ubuntu.com
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> Just tryed! It downloaded OK but would not play?
> 
> 
i had that same problem and it was caused by totems realplugin.
to get realplayer working i did:

# open a terminal and
cd /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/
sudo mv libtotem-complex-plugin.xpt /home/YourName/backup/
sudo mv libtotem-complex-plugin.so /home/YourName/backup/

that did it.

if sound isn't working, you have to:

# install the alsa oss wrapper
sudo apt-get install alsa-oss

# open realplayers startscript and modify it so realplay uses the 
# wrapper 
sudo gedit /usr/lib/realplay-10.0.8/realplay

and search for

while /bin/true; do
        # Restart the player if exit code is 10
        $REALPLAYBIN "$@"
        if [ $? -ne 10 ]; then
           break
        fi
    done

edit this section, so that it reads

while /bin/true; do
        # Restart the player if exit code is 10
        aoss $REALPLAYBIN "$@"
        if [ $? -ne 10 ]; then
           break
        fi
    done

if you're finished, head over to real.com and write them a mail that
we're greatful not to have such a grotesque player/install procedure
like the winusers do, but that still using oss is pretty lame ;)

hope this helps

ulrich