I have downloaded Real Player "RealPlayer10GOLD.bin" to my desktop so could someone tell this old noob how to install it please. I am running Mandriva Spring. Big thanks

You'd better download the rpm package. Go to http://www.real.com/linux then click on 'RedHat package'.
Open a terminal, cd to the directory where you stored the file, su as root then type:
rpm -ivh realplayer10GOLD.rpm

Go to the folder where the bin file is.

type sh ./RealPlayer10GOLD.bin

That should start the installer program.

Regards Glenn

Good catch Glen, it is good to answer the question that was asked. At the same time, I think jib2 gave excellent advise. Since Mandriva is based on the rpm package system, jabos will have a better time of it in the future if the software installed to his/her Linux system is installed from rpm packages. Doing so keeps software management simple.

Thanks for all the great help and advice folks!

He'll have to chmod the binary to mark it executable before it will run.

And in the event (s)he does not understand what that means (is a newbie), before the installer can be executed, it has to have the executable flag turned on, so the commands would become:HTH,

I strongly suggest going with the rpm package, because hopefully, rpm will tell you which gcc libraries are missing, so you can install them to get real player working. Realplayer gold was compiled with gcc-3, Mandriva comes with gcc-4, in order to install realplayer gold, you need the gcc-3.4 compatible libraries, which are available in Mandriva repositories as an rpm also.

To addon to what Junior Hacker said. The gcc libraries needed by RealPlayer are provided by the libsdtc++5 package.

I'm new here. Just finished installing RealPlayer10GOLD from the .bin file in Mandriva2007.0. (The .rpm file is written for Red Hat and I couldn't get it to work, so removed it and installed the .bin version.) Had some issues (such as having to install the C++ library files from CD#2) and had to edit the path to get the link to work, but it is about 90% there.

My problem is I have a few thousand audio files made using the original Real Audio Encoder, dates back to the G2 era. Newer RA files play fine, but the older ones give an error, so I assume I need the proper codecs. I saw an RV9 codec pack for Linux 2x on the Real.com website, but wasn't sure if that would work. Looked on the Helix.com site, couldn't find any info there either. Anyone have a suggestion?

Feel free to e-mail me. mr.bill@pcmagic.net Thanks! Bill

Hi, you should be able to find the win codecs package in the plf repositories.

If you're not too sure of what that is, then go to "easy-urpmi"

http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/

or smart-urpmi

http://www.mandrivauser.de/smarturpmi/

and follow the instructions there to update you rpm database. This may take a while, but usually does not install anything.

Make sure you get the plf repo. This is a repo for software that mandriva may not distribute because of patents, etc.

win32-codecs-1.8-1plf2007.0.i586.rpm is the one I have installed on my x86_64 system.

It may not cover all of the codecs, so look out for the apple (QuickTime, (not to be confused with QT in linux)) and real flavours (australian spelling).

Also remember, LQ has a fantastic search function, and google is your friend.

Regards, Glenn

ps, check out the entries at the bottom of ernies thread (urpmi). <edit> OOps, it's changed.</edit>

Thanks, Glenn. I have no problem playing most multimedia, only the OLD Real Audio files. The later ones play fine, but the earlier ones just generate an error message. I've been looking for a codec pack, but no luck so far. I can play QuickTime, DivX, Xvid, MPEG, VCD, DVD Video, AVI and some WMV with KM Player, so I don't need any codecs for that. ( can convert the WMV to AVI or MPEG on the Windows box so they will play in Linux.)

The Real player will play MP3, the older and newer RM videos and the newer RA audio files. But I have over 35 CDs full of radio interviews going back about ten years that I had archived using the original Real Audio Encoder. Real.com had offered it free, early on, then pulled it, but my copy still works fine. There is a newer version and I could probably switch to that, but it doesn't solve the problem with the older files I have. I can play them on my Windows boxes, but I would like to get the Linux box working too.

I'll check the links you suggested, but I suspect the codecs I need don't exist. I made up a codec pack for Windows so that Real Player 8 can play everything, including the older and RP10 files, and it allows RP10 to play the older ones. Installing codecs in Windows is easy as they are under Application Data\Real\Codecs. But Linux is a lot different and I'm still learning my way around it.

Bill

Do you have win32-codecs installed? You did not say.

It is only available as I mentioned above. (not standard mandriva install)

It will make a difference if you don't have it.

Regards, Glenn

Glenn,

Yup. Everything else plays perfectly. The problem is in the Real Player codecs, which it appears are not available. Hopefully someone will write some one day, since there are still a lot of RA files floating around on the net that use the older G2 codecs.

But that's the least of my problems for now. A friend wanted me to try a USB V.92 external modem, so against my better judgment, I did. (I use a modem because cable is expensive, DSL doesn't work here and I only spend a couple hours per day on the net, so dialup is good enough.) Of course, it was a controllerless modem and wouldn't work, so I removed it and now KPPP refuses to communicate with my old serial port modem. I've tried everything, reinstalling the DUN, etc., but apparently a file got hosed, so I may have to wipe it and do a full reinstall. At least I kept notes of what I did and I can save all the bin and rpm files to CDRW so I don't have to d/l them again.

Bill

Hey, before you hose your install, copy your new question to the networking forum here at LQ. Some one will know what you need to do.

Glenn