How to install Real Player in ubuntu
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This tutorial will tell you how to install Real Player and enable firefox plugin,remove imposed audio icons optionally in ubuntu.
First,download Real Player by execute following command in a terminal window:
wget http://www.real.com/realcom/R?href=http://forms.real.com/real/player/download.html?f=unix/RealPlayer11GOLD.bin
then, in terminal go to the directory where you download the file,make the .bin file executable by command:
chmod a+x RealPlayer11GOLD.bin
execute command:
sudo ./RealPlayer11GOLD.bin
press any key when prompted,after installed you can open Real Player at Applications–>Sound&&Video–>Real Player11
For enable mozilla firefox plugin,type following command:
cp /opt/real/RealPlayer/mozilla/nphelix.so ~/.mozilla/plugins/nphelix.so && cp /opt/real/RealPlayer/mozilla/nphelix.xpt ~/.mozilla/plugins/nphelix.xpt
And remove imposed audio icons by:
sudo /opt/real/RealPlayer/postinst/install_icon_resource.sh uninstall
Update:Another easy way,install realplayer from medibuntu.Just add medibuntu to your ubuntu sources and then use this command to install realplay
sudo apt-get install realplay
see how to add medibuntu sources:http://ubuntuguide.net/add-medibuntu-sources-to-install-more-useful-softwares-in-ubuntu
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- Add medibuntu sources to install more useful softwares in Ubuntu
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Reader Comments
cp /opt/real/RealPlayer/mozilla/nphelix.so ~/.mozilla/plugins/nphelix.so && cp /opt/real/RealPlayer/mozilla/nphelix.xpt ~/.mozilla/plugins/nphelix.xpt
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `&’
How to solve this?
email me…
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Same happened to me. Simply copy the file by the file manager, and put in in the adress indicated by the cp (copy)-syntax.
It worked for me.
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same problem, when I copy’n'past I get error, anyone help ?
john@john-laptop:~$ cp /opt/real/RealPlayer/mozilla/nphelix.so ~/.mozilla/plugins/nphelix.so && cp /opt/real/RealPlayer/mozilla/nphelix.xpt ~/.mozilla/plugins/nphelix.xpt
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `&’
john@john-laptop:~$
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This doesn’t work for me… i get the error
failed: connection refused
does anybody know why this happens?
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after downloading real player when i typed the command
chmod a+x RealPlayer11GOLD.bin an error came which said
chmod: cannot access `RealPlayer11GOLD.bin’: No such file or directory
please help i m not able to play ne music or video. i m completely new to linux and dnt kno nething bout it…
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admin Reply:
February 23rd, 2010 at 8:07 pm
Where you download the .bin file ,you should navigate to the location in terminal and then type the chmod command
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Adnan Khan Reply:
March 21st, 2010 at 2:04 pm
Hope your problem is solved. But if not i just am using RealPlayer now… I my self am new… But really it’s not that bad… I know exactly what you have got… u won’t be able to navigate to that file… Simply copy paste… whatever is given above…
chmod a+x RealPlayer11GOLD.bin
chmod: cannot access `RealPlayer11GOLD.bin’: No such file or directory
For this thing just go into your Home folder where you will find the RealPlayer11Gold.bin?098827584638568346…
This sort of situation… Just Rename it RealPlayerGold.bin
And then follow on with where you encountered the problem…
Hope your problem is solved… TakeCare
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I installed realplayer and it works fine, but how can I download video from youtube with realplayer (pop-out menu doesn’t show up)
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It worked for me without problems thank a lot its the best way I have come across so far.
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little mistake… to install from the medibuntu repository in ubuntu 10.04, the correct command is
sudo apt-get install realplayer
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