[NTLUG:Discuss] Where the realplayer

Sun Mar 2 09:27:36 CST 2003

Ron Hamilton <ronhamilton at gmx.net> wrote:

>On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 03:27:13AM -0600, severian at pobox.com wrote:
>> Howdy,
>>   I use Mandrake 9 for most of my Linux machines and I would like to be 
>> able to play real streams on a couple of them.  I looked on all three 
>> Mandrake CDs and Real is not there.  I am downloading a Peguin Liberation 
>> Front config file now, but I never feel as safe about installing from 
>> there.  How did you go about installing RealPlayer?  I see at least two 
>> options.  One is the alpha version of RealPlayer8 for Linux that Real.com 
>> has.  It says it is designed for a 2.2 kernel, but it might work.  The 
>> other option is the Crossover plugin route, which cost money.  Assuming 
>> your installation works, which did you choose?
>> Thanks,
>> Ralph
>> 
>PLF rocks.  Also you can get the realplayer from real.com as well.. you
>have to dig for it, but it's there.  Just look for the free download
>unix version.  There's an RPM package that will work with Mandrake 9.0
>just change the underscores "_" to dots "." and it will install.
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I got it from when a web page sent me to real.com to get it.
Here is the page
http://forms.real.com/real/player/unix/unix.html
I used the:
lib6.i386 version

rp8.linux20.libc6.i386.cs2.rp

it works find, but I haven't figured out how to link as a plug 
to netscape7.

I could use some help on that.

Garion Sikora

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