Re: [expert] RealPlayer8 failes
On Wednesday 28 March 2001 22:03, you wrote: > Dear Jose: > > Just for the record: RealPlayer 8.0-1 rpm will NOT install. No big deal. > I'll keep using Real7. Benjamin - I think you can safely use --ignorearch on your rpm command line for this. It'll circumvent the requirement that the rpm be for an i586. If that doesn't work you can probably get away with installing the tarball (I think when I did it, it was packaged as a self-extracting shell script ending in something like 'bin'.) > Benjamin -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. ---
Re: [expert] RealPlayer8 failes
Dear Erik: You can get RealPlayer 8 from RealPlayer home page at http://www.real.com by selecting the free RealPlayer 8 Basic and then choosing under OS "Unix". This will take you directly to the Unix Community Supported RealPlayer page at: http://huxley.real.com/real/player/unix/unix.html?src=rpbform You have a choice of downloading two files for Linux: a RealPlayer8.rpm and the other file, which is a RealPlayer8.bin file. Due to the problem with "a different architecture", the rpm file will NOT install. It has been strongly advised by our gurus NOT to try to install it either by forcing it (--force) or by using the --ignorearch option. INSTEAD, do what I just did, thanks to a message from Wolfgang and from Tom Brinkman: First uninstall RealPlayer 7 by typing the command as root: #rpm -e RealPlayer Now install the RealPlayer8.bin file (around 5.8 meg) as ROOT. Then, as root, continue your installation and install the plugins and mimetypes. This is part of the installation as root. Just follow instructions until you have installed it fully as root. Then, as USER, go to the directory it has installed itself in, namely, /usr/local/RealPlayer8 and type: $/usr/local/RealPlayer8>sh mimetypes.sh and $/usr/local/RealPlayer8>sh plugins.sh This will give you the plugins and mimetypes as user. Now, all that's left is to make it more convenient to launch RealPlayer8 as a desktop icon. Create the icon, then in Properties, Execute type: kstart /usr/local/RealPlayer8/./realplay If you don't add "kstart" you won't be able to launch RealPlayer automatically from the icon. So, add the "kstart ..." and it's done. That's it. I am going to send this to the Newbie list. Hopefully, this will help other newbies. Thanks again. Benjamin Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] RealPlayer8 failes
On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Larry Marshall wrote: > Benjamin Sher wrote: > > > Just for the record: RealPlayer 8.0-1 rpm will NOT install. No big deal. > > I'll keep using Real7. > Of topic but where can I get hold of RealPlayer 8? -- /EgU * Erik (EgU) Günther can be found at: Netch Technologies AB | www.ludat.lth.se/~dat94egu +46 (0)46 - 272 46 35 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Fortune: The whole world is a scab. The point is to pick it constructively. -- Peter Beard
Re: [expert] RealPlayer8 failes
Dear Wolfgang: Thanks a million. Will do! Benjamin -- Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] RealPlayer8 failes
On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 07:11 +, Larry Marshall wrote: > Benjamin Sher wrote: > > > Just for the record: RealPlayer 8.0-1 rpm will NOT install. No big deal. > > I'll keep using Real7. > > Benjamin, hunt down the .bin file for RP8. It works. You'll need it > as more and more sites are requiring it for display. On Thu, 15 Feb 2001 Tom Brinkman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent a mail to this mailinglist with a working (at least for me) mini-HOWTO to install RealPlayer 8 on Mandrake 7.2 including plugins and mime handling: --snip-- do an ftp search (http://ftpsearch.lycos.com/?form=medium) for rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs1.bin (5.6mb) That'll return at least 15 links worldwide and you can spare yourself the hassle of going thru Real's B$ to get it. As root run ./rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs1.bin and it'll take care of everything including NSplugin's and mime types. Problem is, for root only. So as user, cd to /usr/local/RealPlayer8 and run sh mimeinstall.sh && sh pluginstall.sh If you want Konqueror to use RP8, goto Control Center | Web browsing | NetScape Plugins | 'Scan for new Plugins', apply. Then re-start user's X session. RealPlayer8 should now be on your main menu, and auto used by both Konqueror and NutScrape when you click on a G2/realplayer link. ---snap--- As I wrote, this worked perfectly for me, the plugin shows in about:plugins and all the videos and/or audio sites started RP with the klick on the link. wobo -- GPG-Fingerprint: FE5A 0891 7027 8D1B 4E3F 73C1 AD9B D732 A698 82EE For Public Key mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: GPG-Request --- ISDN4LINUX-FAQ -- Deutsch: http://www.wolf-b.de/i4l/i4lfaq-de.html
Re: [expert] RealPlayer8 failes
Benjamin Sher wrote:
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> Dear Jose:
>
> Just for the record: RealPlayer 8.0-1 rpm will NOT install. No big deal.
> I'll keep using Real7.
>
> Benjamin
>
> [sher@sher07@sherlantz sher]$ su
> Password:
> [root@sher07@sherlantz sher]# rpm -Uvh --nodeps
> rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs1.rpm
>
> package RealPlayer-8.0-1 is for a different architecture
> [root@sher07@sherlantz sher]#
>
> --
> Sher's Russian Web
> http://www.websher.net
> Benjamin and Anna Sher
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
do this command.
rpm -Uvh --ignorearch rp8*
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Re: [expert] RealPlayer8 failes
Benjamin Sher wrote: > Just for the record: RealPlayer 8.0-1 rpm will NOT install. No big deal. > I'll keep using Real7. Benjamin, hunt down the .bin file for RP8. It works. You'll need it as more and more sites are requiring it for display. Cheers --- Larry
