arctic Posted March 25, 2007 Report Share Posted March 25, 2007 If you want to do it the safe way, open the MCC, go to system -> software -> remove applications. Uncheck the installed realplayer package. Then install the one that I mentioned as told above. Seerofsouls has some extra-packages that are optimised for and tested with Mandriva, thus they should work. (Well, they work on my lappy) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverSurfer60 Posted March 25, 2007 Report Share Posted March 25, 2007 I have just followed your directiions Arctic and RealPlayer does not show up in /usr/local/bin. As I recall it never has and I have been installing it since ver 10 Its always had its own directory in /usr/local/RealPlayer with a script in /usr/bin I have just installed helixplayer and that does not show up in /usr/local/bin ??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted March 25, 2007 Report Share Posted March 25, 2007 I will fire up my lappy later and take a look at it. Currently, I am sitting in front of my desktop-system (fedora). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted March 25, 2007 Report Share Posted March 25, 2007 Bloody shit! I guess this will take some time. I dropped my lappy after tripping over a box that was laying on the floor (I am moving household). Great, now the harddrive is dead. :wall: The rest of the lappy seems to be still okay, but I will have to plug a new hdd into the lappy and reinstall everything. *sigh* :sad: Not my day... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimtim Posted March 25, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 25, 2007 No, sorry, no joy with the SOS method either. Hope everything goes OK with your computer, Artic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverSurfer60 Posted March 25, 2007 Report Share Posted March 25, 2007 Sorry to hear that Arctic, about the lappy that is, not moving house. Anyways on to Jim if your still in the mood. I have been experimenting and found that Artics way of installing puts RealPlayer in /usr/lib/RealPlayer10GOLD/mozilla To get the whole thing working I finished up putting a soft link in ~/.mozilla/plugins Linking to nphelix.so & nphelix.xpt. This now puts me back where I was before. So it is my suggestion to do as I have done, that is install Real Player using Arctics method and the link as outlined above. I assume you know how to link, not being rude here. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimtim Posted March 25, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 25, 2007 You're not being rude at all! Shouldn't assume anything! However, I presume by that the squibble in your ln command is an 's', to give ln -s? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverSurfer60 Posted March 25, 2007 Report Share Posted March 25, 2007 I'm jumping ahead again. The squibble is shorthand for your home directory. If you don't know how to link please let us know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg2 Posted March 25, 2007 Report Share Posted March 25, 2007 @arctic, Sorry to here about your lappy, I hope you've 'only' damaged the hd. @Jimtim, I've just dissembled a RealPlayer-10.0.8.805-3.SoS.2007.0.i586.rpm and it does indeed place the realplay script in /usr/lib/RealPlayer10GOLD/realplay with it linked to /usr/bin/realplay, so /usr/bin/realplay will (should) work. I have installed Realplayer on my systems with the Realplayer10Gold.bin, and it places the script in /usr/local/bin/realplay, I'm sorry for that bit of confusion. As SilverSurfer60 has noted: Copy or link nphelix.so to your Mozilla plugins directory and nphelix.xpt to your Mozilla components directory. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimtim Posted March 25, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 25, 2007 I think we're getting there - slowly but surely. I have downloaded Realplayer by Arctic's method and there ins't a Realplayer binary in /usr/local/bin/. This file remains empty. Should I manually place the Realplayer binary here? More news, when I put the URL of the clip I want to see in Realplayer it doesn't work anymore And still mplayer starts when I try to launch Realplayer on the BBC - even though (I hasten to add) I have Realplayer set on the BBC preference page as my default player. Perhaps this is because Realplayer can't be found? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverSurfer60 Posted March 25, 2007 Report Share Posted March 25, 2007 Don't move anything Jim, if you back about 5 posts you will see where everything has been installed. Unfortunately Greg2 got a little confused and gave you the wrong location. Follow what I wrote in that post and you should be up and running. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimtim Posted March 25, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 25, 2007 I've just un-installed Realplayer and then re-installed it by double-clicking the rpm package. I now find a realplay script in usr/bin but still nothing in usr/local/bin. Just to make sure, do you agree with this? As SilverSurfer60 has noted: Copy or link nphelix.so to your Mozilla plugins directory and nphelix.xpt to your Mozilla components directory. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dexter11 Posted March 25, 2007 Report Share Posted March 25, 2007 I have downloaded Realplayer by Arctic's method and there ins't a Realplayer binary in /usr/local/bin/.Executable files only go to /usr/local/bin if you compiled the given program yourself. If you install from a package the executable filr goes to /usr/bin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimtim Posted March 25, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 25, 2007 Ahhh...now things are a little clearer! T :D hanks very much for the precision! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverSurfer60 Posted March 25, 2007 Report Share Posted March 25, 2007 I have downloaded Realplayer by Arctic's method and there ins't a Realplayer binary in /usr/local/bin/.Executable files only go to /usr/local/bin if you compiled the given program yourself. If you install from a package the executable filr goes to /usr/bin. Now that is from a member who knows Jim. Thank you Dexter I've just un-installed Realplayer and then re-installed it by double-clicking the rpm package. I now find a realplay script in usr/bin but still nothing in usr/local/bin. Just to make sure, do you agree with this? As SilverSurfer60 has noted: Copy or link nphelix.so to your Mozilla plugins directory and nphelix.xpt to your Mozilla components directory. Not quite Jim, because you won't find a Mozilla components in your .mozilla directory. Either copy or link both the files into ~/.mozilla/plugins directory. We are very nearly there. Stay with it and we will win. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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