Greetings everyone,

I am a new kid in the Linux community and a total novice. Having managed to successfully install and configure CentOS 5 I am unable to play music or videos. So I downloaded RealPlayer10GOLD.bin file.
However, I don't know how to install and configure this application. Your help would by very much appreciated.

Kind Regards
Sunshine111

If you want to install RealPlayer on CentOS, I suggest you got to http://www.real.com/linux and download the Redhat package. You can click on the package or use the rpm command to install it. You will also need to install the compat-libstdc++-33 package by switching to root and running the command below in a terminal

The original poster has already said that they've downloaded the .bin file (the installer version of Real Player).

First make sure the bin file is executable. If you're using KDE then right click on the file, select "properties", then the "permissions" tab, and make sure "Is executable" is checked (or similar words. I'm away from my Linux box at the moment, so don't know the exact words).

Open a terminal, type "su" then your root password. Now type the file path of the bin file and press enter. If I remember correctly it will ask you a few questions in the terminal first, then launch a graphical installer. In any case there will be on-screen instructions to follow from there on.

First: CentOS5 is an rpm based distribution and one should try to find and install rpm packages instead.

Second: Learn how to use the tools for the CentOS5 distribution. You have some nice tools installed that can help you do things like installing packages. RealPlayer10GOLD is not one of the best things to install for a number of reasons, first and foremost better packages are available. Please visit Dag Wieers's site and install the rpmforge-release package according to the instructions here:

http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/FAQ.php#B

When done from the virtual console or an xterm session type:

yum install mplayer mplayer-skins mplayerplug-in

The mplayer-skins package is optional, but nice to have so you can choose various looks for mplayer. The mplayerplug-in package makes playing videos from the inernet fun using firefox and/or seamonkey.

Since you want some codecs for playing back various files locally or from the Internet visit:

http://rpm.pbone.net/

Search for and download some mplayer-codec packages;
mplayer-codecs-20061022-1.i386.rpm
mplayer-codecs-extra-20061022-1.i386.rpm

Third: Welcome to Linux!!!

CentOS is based off Redhat, so obviously installing a Redhat package would be ideal. Cheers.

I'm trying to install Real Player in Debian 4.0, but when I execute ./RealPlayerGOLD10.bin, I get the error message "./RealPlayer10GOLD.bin: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory." Anyone know why or what I cn do to fix the problem?

In Debian, install libstdc++5 with apt, aptitude or synaptic, it may need to also install gcc-3.3-base. The RealPlayer code was put together using gcc-3, Debian comes with gcc-4, which is why you need to install gcc-3 libraries. (Something along those lines).

Just want to say thanks. I had read this post and figured out that I needed to install the gcc-3 libraries but the response to my post confirmed it and after an instalation of the libraries Real Player worked fine.