Installing RealPlayer10 Gold on Xubuntu 6.06 - Dapper

[Joseph Berk]

I've managed to install Xubuntu 6.06 on my 256MHz, 500MHz ibook using the alternate install, but I'm working on making the basic install work with all the multimedia I use. My first stop was to download Realplayer10 which, once completed, left an icon on my desktop but no application was installed. I tried to double click the icon, but Linux doesn't know what to do with the file. I tried opening Synaptic Package Manager, but I don't know what to do from there.

Could someone give me the complete, detailed step by step for installing Realplayer10 Gold? You know - the "installation for dummies" version.

thx,

Joseph

[arochester]

Have a look at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Re...ds?action=show

Realplayer is available from repositories. Have a "Search" in Synaptic.

[Joseph Berk]

I tried to "search" by using the lower left button on the "Synaptic Package Manager" dialog box. I tied key words like Real and Realplayer but the only package revealed was "realpath".

I followed the link in the last reply but I'm still not sure what to do. It said something about adding canonical's commercial repository using "dep Index of /ubuntu dapper partner"

Is that something I need to do at the terminal before I can add realplayer?

All I want to do is view movies on the web and play DVD movies.

Joseph

[Manchunian]

Three things come to my mind:
1) Do you have all your repositories enabled? I don't use Ubuntu, but I believe you need the multiverse repositories to get Realplayer.
2) Are you sure you need Realplayer at all? I don't. I use VLC for everything these days. The only thing it won't do is open Realplayer files on the BBC. Instead, I use Mplayer for this.
3) Why are you using Dapper? This is old now, and I think you should consider installing Feisty.

[arochester]

All I want to do is view movies on the web and play DVD movies.

Install libdvdss2 (from Medibuntu repository), win32codecs and VLC Media Player and you should be able to watch DVDs. You shouldn't need Realplayer. Have a look at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats . For Flash across the web have a look at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Re...1ddaa63439d2db

[Manchunian]

I agree with this last post. I'd just like to add that VLC doesn't need the Win32 codecs or libdvdcss - all the codecs come with the player.

[i92guboj]

I agree with this last post. I'd just like to add that VLC doesn't need the Win32 codecs or libdvdcss - all the codecs come with the player.

Mplayer can still use them, but it doesn't need them since a long time now. It can open natively almost anything, including real media streams and flv flash videos. The bad part is that dvd support in mplayer really sucks.

I use xine for that usually.

[Manchunian]

Yes, I agree with this. However, I don't use Xine anymore to play dvds: VLC handles them fine. This software really rocks!