Realplayer 8....Is this really news worthy? here's a couple of reasons...

[element-x]

Well I don't know about you guys, but when I saw it on real.com about...2 months ago, I thought it would possibly be front page worthy on a site like freshmeat and/or appwatch.com, but then 2 months later after rp8 came out, I see it on the LNO front page, how come? Maybe I'm missing something but ah well! Just thought I'd point out that this is really really old news.


/* Copied from file listing of my system */
drwxr-xr-x 6 user group 1024 Dec 20 20:15 RealPlayer8/

Well...maybe I was off when I said 2 months, it will be 2 months come 9 days from now.


Anyways, just being the devil's advocate here.

Take Care and have a Great day! :D

[StarbuckZero]

I didn't know at all. RealPlayer have said nothing at all about this thing and I haven't seen it at the Linux news sites. I remember someone pointing out that Download.com had RealPlayer 8 for Linux... But it was still 7. It's good to see that RealPlayer 8 is out for Linux, I was thinking that the company stop with there support when it came to the OS. I guess I'll have to download it and try it out. :D

[Sensei]

I agree it isn't "newsworthy" but I get alot of emails concerning Real Player installs and 90% of the time they are using a previous version which wasn't so good.

It was just to eleviate some possible "installation frustration" :D

[MBMarduk]

Maybe a dumb question, but the Real.com site says "for Unix" and when the native SuSE installer (YaST) tries, it responds "ERROR:...for another architecture"...
Are you people positive it's suitable for Linux (AND going through the registration process @ Real.com???)

TIA
-Mike

[element-x]

try not using the packaged version(RPM? or whatever the YaST packages are named), you may have better luck with say...the binary/source


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Also, I was just posting my view, tis all. Guess I should've realized that by posting it on the frontpage, more people would see it, upgrade and possibly have less problems than they did with RP7. Stupid me ;)

Sorry about that.

[tnordloh]

Yah, you have to use the tarred one. I tried the rpm version too, and got the same 'architecture' bull**** error. It appears that the makers of either the menu or the rpm itself screwed the pooch.