I have just installed Realplayer in /usr/bin/RealPlayer, the files
show in the directory and in the 'Aplications->Media-Real Player 10',
however, it will not run (!?).
What have I done wrong? can any body help?

jamiil wrote:

> I have just installed Realplayer in /usr/bin/RealPlayer, the files
> show in the directory and in the 'Aplications->Media-Real Player 10',
> however, it will not run (!?).
> What have I done wrong? can any body help?


A little more information as to what you did would help us to help you.
Did you install a deb, a bin or what, where did you get it from ?

On 15 Feb 2007 20:25:35 -0800, jamiil <jalqadir@gmail.com> wrote in
alt.os.linux.debian:

> I have just installed Realplayer in /usr/bin/RealPlayer, the files
> show in the directory and in the 'Aplications->Media-Real Player 10',
> however, it will not run (!?).
> What have I done wrong? can any body help?

Instead of installing a binary from real.com, I suggest using
Christian Marillat's unofficial Debian repository.

E.g, I have this line in my /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/os/Linux/dis...ian-multimedia testing main

It provides a recent realplayer package.

You may want to pick a different repository from the list at
<http://www.debian-multimedia.org>, and you may want to change
"testing" to "stable" or "sid" or whatever flavour of Debian you're
using.

You'll also need the w32codecs package from the same source.

--
PJR :-)

On Feb 16, 12:13 am, David A' Rebel <r...@rebellion.enzed.corn> wrote:
> jamiil wrote:
> > I have just installed Realplayer in /usr/bin/RealPlayer, the files
> > show in the directory and in the 'Aplications->Media-Real Player 10',
> > however, it will not run (!?).
> > What have I done wrong? can any body help?
>
> A little more information as to what you did would help us to help you.
> Did you install a deb, a bin or what, where did you get it from ?

Thank for the prompt response, it was bin file. I don't think there is
a deb one, is there one?

jamiil wrote:
> I have just installed Realplayer in /usr/bin/RealPlayer...

Local packages should go under /usr/local (or in some cases under /opt).

> I don't think there is a deb one, is there one?

toncho/~ 4 apt-cache show realplayer
Package: realplayer
Priority: optional
Section: graphics
Installed-Size: 15092
Maintainer: Christian Marillat <marillat@debian.org>
Architecture: i386
Source: realplay
Version: 10.0.8-0.1
Depends: libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.7.2), libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-21), libgcc1 (>= 1:3.4.1-3), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.6.0), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.6.0), libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.8.1), libstdc++5 (>= 1:3.3.4-1), libx11-6 | xlibs (>> 4.1.0), libxext6 | xlibs (>> 4.1.0)
Conflicts: helix-player
Filename: pool/main/r/realplay/realplayer_10.0.8-0.1_i386.deb
Size: 6131168
MD5sum: 70b2f40310c6a6ae3bcbefac6d657995
SHA1: 89e22c640ca02028ac4e8b6d7a3439d909d2b468
SHA256: f7c90dc4d0b459ad35b22bd294973b6946d577d7e50cc3ac8c ec0ed7c658470c
Description: RealPlayer 10 based on the open source Helix player
RealPlayer 10 for Linux is based on the open source Helix player.

jamiil wrote:

> On Feb 16, 12:13 am, David A' Rebel <r...@rebellion.enzed.corn> wrote:
>> jamiil wrote:
>> > I have just installed Realplayer in /usr/bin/RealPlayer, the files
>> > show in the directory and in the 'Aplications->Media-Real Player 10',
>> > however, it will not run (!?).
>> > What have I done wrong? can any body help?
>>
>> A little more information as to what you did would help us to help you.
>> Did you install a deb, a bin or what, where did you get it from ?
>
> Thank for the prompt response, it was bin file. I don't think there is
> a deb one, is there one?

Ubuntu has them on their commercial repos


So you installed it as root
by chmod a+x nameof file

then ./nameoffile ?

Did you allow it to choose its own directory or did you put it in a specific
one ?
Did you allow it to create the symbolic links ?
what happens if you open a terminal and type realplay ?

On Feb 16, 5:49 pm, Peter J Ross <p...@example.invalid> wrote:
> On 15 Feb 2007 20:25:35 -0800, jamiil <jalqa...@gmail.com> wrote in
> alt.os.linux.debian:
>
> > I have just installed Realplayer in /usr/bin/RealPlayer, the files
> > show in the directory and in the 'Aplications->Media-Real Player 10',
> > however, it will not run (!?).
> > What have I done wrong? can any body help?
>
> Instead of installing a binary from real.com, I suggest using
> Christian Marillat's unofficial Debian repository.
>
> E.g, I have this line in my /etc/apt/sources.list:
>
> debhttp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/os/Linux/distributions/debian-multimediatesting main
>
> It provides a recent realplayer package.
>
> You may want to pick a different repository from the list at
> <http://www.debian-multimedia.org>, and you may want to change
> "testing" to "stable" or "sid" or whatever flavour of Debian you're
> using.
>
> You'll also need the w32codecs package from the same source.
>
> --
> PJR :-)

Thanks!
I am now doing the download

I chose the diectory it was '/usr/sbin/RealPlayer'
Is there a way to uninstall the RealPlayerxxxxxx.bin?
I have apt-getted a version from a site suggested by John Hasler, but
still the '.ra' are not working.
What other information can I provide to make it easy on you folks to
help me.

T.I.A.

On Feb 16, 9:34 pm, David A' Rebel <r...@rebellion.enzed.corn> wrote:
> jamiil wrote:
> > On Feb 16, 12:13 am, David A' Rebel <r...@rebellion.enzed.corn> wrote:
> >> jamiil wrote:
> >> > I have just installed Realplayer in /usr/bin/RealPlayer, the files
> >> > show in the directory and in the 'Aplications->Media-Real Player 10',
> >> > however, it will not run (!?).
> >> > What have I done wrong? can any body help?
>
> >> A little more information as to what you did would help us to help you.
> >> Did you install a deb, a bin or what, where did you get it from ?
>
> > Thank for the prompt response, it was bin file. I don't think there is
> > a deb one, is there one?
>
> Ubuntu has them on their commercial repos
>
> So you installed it as root
> by chmod a+x nameof file
>
> then ./nameoffile ?
>
> Did you allow it to choose its own directory or did you put it in a specific
> one ?
> Did you allow it to create the symbolic links ?
> what happens if you open a terminal and type realplay ?

jamiil wrote:
> I chose the diectory it was '/usr/sbin/RealPlayer'

Why? That's for "system" stuff like useradd.

> Is there a way to uninstall the RealPlayerxxxxxx.bin?

How did you install it?

> I have apt-getted a version from a site suggested by John Hasler, but
> still the '.ra' are not working.

What, _exactly_, did you try? BTW I find that vlc does everything I need.
--
John Hasler

On Feb 16, 11:02 pm, John Hasler <jhas...@debian.org> wrote:
> jamiil wrote:
> > I chose the diectory it was '/usr/sbin/RealPlayer'
>
> Why? That's for "system" stuff like useradd.
>
> > Is there a way to uninstall the RealPlayerxxxxxx.bin?
>
> How did you install it?
>
> > I have apt-getted a version from a site suggested by John Hasler, but
> > still the '.ra' are not working.
>
> What, _exactly_, did you try? BTW I find that vlc does everything I need.
> --
> John Hasler
I did the same everybody does when installing RealPlayerxxxxx.bin,
with the exeption of choosing a different directory. Have you ever
intalled RealPlayerxxxxx.bin?

'apt-get install realplayer' [!?] is there a easier to get
applications than apt-getting under debian?