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RealPlayer 10 in Ubuntu Breezy |
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Friday, 14 October 2005 |
I have a nice shiny new install of Ubuntu on my lappy. In order to listen to John Peel day from the BBC website, I wanted the Firefox Real Player plugin to actually work!
So I downloaded Real Player for Linux in rpm form from here http://www.real.com/ and converted it to a deb with alien...
# alien --to-deb RealPlayer10GOLD.rpm
this produced the file realplayer_10.0.6.776-20050916_i386.deb which installed just fine with
# dpkg -i realplayer_10.0.6.776-20050916_i386.deb
However it puts the binary in a stupid place. So you have to link it or move it.
# ln -sf /usr/loca/RealPlayer/realplay /usr/loca/bin/realplay
Then copy the plugin files across as well (or link them)
# cp /usr/local/RealPlayer/mozilla/* /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins/
And you're done :-) Obviously, you need to run those commands via sudo or as root.
I started Firefox and straight away it all just worked. Hurrah!! All so I could listen to Radio1
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