RealPlayer

[mtyoung]

I can't believe it, it seems to have worked first time. It's listed 
under Apps/Sound & Video.
But, now I need to know where it's installed, so I can point Firefox to 
it when I try to open a real one player file on a web page.

mtyoung

peter wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-09-24 at 15:52 -0500, mtyoung wrote:
>   
>> This is the message from Synaptic Package Manager.
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Real Player (installer)
>> Real Player is a streaming sound and video player from RealNetworks.
>>
>> RealNetworks does not allow redistribution of their software. Therefore,
>> this package requires the user to fetch the real player archive separately
>> from their web site. When you install this package you will be guided
>> through that process.
>>
>>
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Which, combined with it's being pulled from EasyUbuntu, leads me to 
>> believe that RealPlayer has asked that it be removed from all of the 
>> repositories.
>>
>> mtyoung
>>     
> <snip>
>
> Forget using apt, forget using synaptic.
> applications -> add/remove
>
> Wait
>
> Tick show commercial applications.
>
> Wait whilst the program does its business.
>
> Enter RealPlayer in the search box at the top.
>
> Tick RealPlayer 10 in the list of applications.
>
> Select OK
> wait
>
> and your done.
>
> The add remove program is a little slow and simple but works great for
> install a large number of applications and is always my first port of
> call with synaptic as a fall back
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> Peter
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