RealPlayer

[mtyoung]

Okay, I got it working from FireFox.

I tried using the command line, "locate real", to find it, but it 
doesn't show up in the results. Why is that?
I stumbled across a link to the shell script in /usr/bin which led me to
/usr/lib/realplay-10.0.8/realplay
and that works with FireFox.

Thank you, Peter for making it easy to get RealPlayer installed, and 
thanks to everyone else for joining in.

mtyoung



mtyoung wrote:
> 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
>>
>>
>> Peter
>>
>>
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