I just installed RealPlayer as root with an RPM, how do I run the program now?

[BizEchilD]

Actually, where is it located? I'm not doing to well with finding things yet in Linux.

Thanks

[TotalFoo]

Run the .rpm file again but insted of installing hit the file list tab and it will show you where it put the files.

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[lad24mx]

Originally posted by BizEchilD:
Actually, where is it located? I'm not doing to well with finding things yet in Linux.

Thanks

Open up a terminal and type the following:

$ realpaly then hit enter. you should now be greeted "with a beautiful sign up form" http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/tongue.gif

As to for where the file's kept/stored. I run SuSE 7 and mine copy of Real Player is stored in the /usr/lib/RealPlayer or something like that, anyhow, the file you look for is usually stored in the user menu.

Hope this helps.

[lad24mx]

Originally posted by lad24mx:
Open up a terminal and type the following:

$ realpaly then hit enter. you should now be greeted "with a beautiful sign up form" http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/tongue.gif

As to for where the file's kept/stored. I run SuSE 7 and mine copy of Real Player is stored in the /usr/lib/RealPlayer or something like that, anyhow, the file you look for is usually stored in the user menu.

Hope this helps.



That's user as in /usr. Just had to make that clear. One more thing, if you run KDE as I do, there's a search tool under the K menu you may want and give that a try. It's just like what you would find in windoze.

[jae1677]

That's realplay not realpaly. (I'm not trying to be a smartass, just trying to save Biz a little trouble)

Hey Biz, open a terminal and type;

whereis realplay

and it should find it for you. I've found this is alot faster than KDE's file finder.

http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/biggrin.gif

[BizEchilD]

Thanks a lot.. I just had to rerun it from the Kmenu and it installed it again, but since I had to do the RPM as root I guess this made it work and associated it with hopefully only rm files.

[tminos]

I installed RealPlayer 7, it got put in /opt/RealPlayer7 for some reason or another.

[lad24mx]

Originally posted by BizEchilD:
Thanks a lot.. I just had to rerun it from the Kmenu and it installed it again, but since I had to do the RPM as root I guess this made it work and associated it with hopefully only rm files.

There's no need to install must software as root. Try the following:

Open up a terminal while loged in as user,
in the terminal type:

$su

and hit enter,
you should now be prompted to input your root password, do so and press enter.

You have now become the Superuser and have root permissions. http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/tongue.gif

Now that you've become the super user, cd to the directory in which you kept a copy of yourfile.rpm like so:

$cd /home/user/yourfiles

hit enter and type the following command to install real player or file of your choice like so:

$ rpm -i yourfile.rpm

hit enter.... and voila !! Your file's been installed.

The following are a few extra rpm commands you may want to learn.


rpm -i (installs rpm package)
rpm -U (upgrades rpm package)
rpm -u (uninstalls packages - note this command's been deprecated, but may still work in older systems)
rpm -q (package version)


Got to go now.
Hope I've been of help.

Robert

[lad24mx]

Originally posted by jae1677:
That's realplay not realpaly. (I'm not trying to be a smartass, just trying to save Biz a little trouble)

Hey Biz, open a terminal and type;

whereis realplay

and it should find it for you. I've found this is alot faster than KDE's file finder.

http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/biggrin.gif

Sorry, that was a typo. http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/eek.gif

[lad24mx]

Originally posted by BizEchilD:
Thanks a lot.. I just had to rerun it from the Kmenu and it installed it again, but since I had to do the RPM as root I guess this made it work and associated it with hopefully only rm files.

Here's a nice trick for RealPlayer.
Find the directory in which real was installed and look for the mime script. Don't go into any of the subfolders, you should see the script right away.
I think the file's named something like mimeinstall.sh

This little script takes care of mime extension in Netscape, what do I mean by that? you may be wondering. Mime extension are the ones that allow real or netscape to stream data. The script should install five new mime extension in Netscape that allow you to stream audio, video, any rm and/or smil extensions.

Well I guess you get the idea. To execute the file type:

$sh file.sh

Remember to cd to the respective directory and don't forget to become the superuser.
If the script is not an file.sh extension
then execute it with the command.

$./file

the last thing for you to do is, surf on to www.real.com (http://www.real.com) and stream some media !!! http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/biggrin.gif