Am currently exploring my new and excellent Mandrake 10.0 with KDE installation, but as a newbie to Linux am naturally having great difficulty doing anything outside of the graphical interfaces.

I just downloaded HelixPlayer-1.0.1.i586.rpm and RealPlayer10GOLD.rpm

I double clicked on these files and was informed they were being installed - the loading graphics certainly seemed to indicate this. But nothing else happened at all.

My question is where are the installed files now, and how can I access them and activate one of these players ?

I guess i've been spoiled by the ease of installing apps in Windows!

John

run hlxplay or realplayer from a console.

Thanks' Chris, but I don't seem to have a console.
I have a Run Command window and a Terminal Program window, but typing hlxplay or realplayer in them does nothing.

John

Solved the problem!
I found this code on another forum and typed it in my KDE "Run Command" window, and it activated Real Player.

artsdsp/usr/bin/realplay

The player connects to streaming audio, but the sound quality is terrible - sort of overmodulated and slightly garbled. Will have to try and solve this next.

John

you can just run the command "realplay" and it should work