Want Realplayer in Edgy?

[Professor Wagstaff]

Thanks for your help but the terminal stuff didnt work(/home/my
name/backup/ got error)  . I am not That interested or have the time for
this(likely to stuff it up). I thought there might be a quick fix seeing
as it worked out of the box in Dapper.
Jeff

On Sun, 2006-10-29 at 22:17 +0100, Ulrich Steffens wrote:
> 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.
> > > 
> > > The edgy-commercial repository currently is empty. You need to use the
> > > 'realplay' package in dapper-commercial.
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > - --
> > > 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
> 
>