rpm showing already installed,but not installed actually
 

hi frnds
this is my very first thread .
i downloaded realplayer11gold rpm from the appropriate site.i installed it and it has showed me in the sound and video in applications.but when i click the icon it is not opening.not even showing any error msg also.when i run the command rpm -q Real...rpm it is showing that the package is not installed.
please help me out...

I would expect you are trying to uninstall the *file* and not the *package*, i.e. "rpm -e realplayer11gold.rpm" which doesn't make sense, as the file it came from is no longer relevant. "rpm -e realplayer11gold" would remove the package.

do you really want to be installing this though?? realplayer???

yes i want to install it...

oh, sorry I forgot the bit about making it work...

OK, so clicking on icons isn't really a useful way to debug stuff, so open a terminal and run "realplay" from there.

hi chris
it showed me the below msg when i tried that.
/opt/real/RealPlayer/realplay.bin: error while loading shared libraries: libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory.
realplayer directory is also there in /opt directory...
any how thanks for ur reply.

libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 : Should be present on any OS.

May be you have a 64bits OS ? ( RealPlayer11GOLD is 32bits.)



rpm -qa --last | head -10
will show the latest installed packages : RealPlayer etc.
So the command 'rpm -qa | grep -i realplay'
... would also show it as installed : RealPlayer

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yes it showed me the real player is installed...but real player is not opening...

The command : uname -m

... will show your architecture.



And : Which OS are you using, like Fedora 11, CentOS5, Suse 12.1 ?
http://www.linuxquestions.org/linux/...Ask_a_Question
http://linuxsilo.net/docs/smart-questions_en.html

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