RealPlayer 10 for Linux is based on the open source Helix player. The Helix Community is an open collaborative effort among multimedia enthusiasts to develop and extend the Helix DNA platform. The community offers a collaborative, consensus based development process, with an extensive and diverse ecosystem of developers all involved in creating world class multimedia enabled applications. The Helix Community was created in July of 2002 by Real to help the industry standardize on an open digital media platform.
Installing and using Real Player 10.0.9 Gold in OpenSuse is fairly Straight forward.
Download Real Player 10.0.9 Gold (latest stable) for Linux from here
The installer is a “.bin” file.
Once downloaded, “su” to root and change the permissions of the file:
SAIBABA:/home/susegeek/Desktop # chmod 755 realplay-10.0.9.809-linux-2.2-libc6-gcc32-i586.bin
Now, the file has executable permissions. Run the installer as root
SAIBABA:/home/susegeek/Desktop # ./realplay-10.0.9.809-linux-2.2-libc6-gcc32-i58
6.bin
Extracting files for RealPlayer installation……………………Welcome to the RealPlayer (10.0.9.809) Setup for UNIX
Setup will help you get RealPlayer running on your computer.
Press [Enter] to continue…Enter the complete path to the directory where you want
RealPlayer to be installed. You must specify the full
pathname of the directory and have write privileges to
the chosen directory.
Directory: [/home/susegeek/Desktop/RealPlayer]: /opt/RealPlayer
I here entered the installation path to be /opt/RealPlayer. This completes the installation and puts a shortcut on the Menu (Kmenu here!)
Now, start RealPlayer 10 for the first time and click “Forward”
Go through the Release notes if you felt like 😉 and Click “Forwad”
Go through the License details and click “Accept”
Select “Check for Updates” & “Configure Mozilla Helpers” checkboxes in the next window and click “OK”
Thats it!!! Real Player is now ready for you to enjoy all your music.!!!
Thank you for your tutorial. I’m running OpenSUSe 11.1, kernel 2.6.27, KDE 4.1.3. I have followed exactly as above, and have two problems, I cannot see it on the desktop, but when I go into my computer then My Home Folder, then desktop, I can see it.
When I go into the terminal, and as root, I am told: No such file or directory.
Any ideas?
Hi am very new in this linux thing, I have tried to follow the steps but cant get past the 2nd step, any idea why?
./realplay-10.0.9.809-linux-2.2-libc6-gcc32-i586.bin
./realplay-10.0.9.809-linux-2.2-libc6-gcc32-i586.bin: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
any assistance will be highly appreciated.
have tried to follow the steps but cant get past the 2nd step as well