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RealPlayer on Ubuntu

The instructions below detail how to download and install RealPlayer on Ubuntu Linux. The instructions also enable the Mozilla/Firefox plugin and optionally remove Real's imposed audio icons:

1. Open a terminal and enter the following command to download RealPlayer:

wget http://www.real.com/realcom/R?href=http://forms.real.com/real/player/download.html?f=unix/RealPlayer11GOLD.bin

2. Make the file executable with the following command:

chmod a+x RealPlayer11GOLD.bin

3. Run the executable as root and enter your password when prompted:

sudo ./RealPlayer11GOLD.bin

4. If everything is working, you should see this message, hit enter:

Extracting files for Helix installation........................

Welcome to the RealPlayer (11.0.0.4028) Setup for UNIX
Setup will help you get RealPlayer running on your computer.
Press [Enter] to continue...

5. When prompted, install to /opt/real/RealPlayer, just hit enter:

Enter the complete path to the directory where you want
RealPlayer to be installed.  You must specify the full
pathname of the directory and have write privileges to
the chosen directory.
Directory:  [/opt/real/RealPlayer]

6. Enter "F" at the following screen to confirm:

You have selected the following RealPlayer configuration:

Destination:            /opt/real/RealPlayer

Enter [F]inish to begin copying files, or [P]revious to go
back to the previous prompts: [F]:

7. If all goes well, RealPlayer should install and you will be dumped back to the prompt:

Copying RealPlayer files...Path setup done.
Succeeded.
installing application icons resource...
installing document icons resource...
....Succeeded.
Configuring Mozilla...
Installing .mo locale files...
Setting selinux context...
Succeeded.

RealPlayer installation is complete.
Cleaning up installation files...
Done.

8. Optional: delete the RealPlayer download with the following command:

rm RealPlayer11GOLD.bin

9. Copy the Mozilla/Firefox plugins to your plugins directory, enter the command:

cp /opt/real/RealPlayer/mozilla/nphelix.so ~/.mozilla/plugins/nphelix.so && cp /opt/real/RealPlayer/mozilla/nphelix.xpt ~/.mozilla/plugins/nphelix.xpt

10. Optional: remove RealPlayer audio icons from system:

sudo /opt/real/RealPlayer/postinst/install_icon_resource.sh uninstall

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7 Responses to “RealPlayer on Ubuntu”

Chris Jones wrote, Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

It doesn't seem to be updated for realplayer 11 yet, or have a gutsy/hardy entry, but you can get a realplayer 10 package from here:

http://archive.canonical.com/pool/partner/r/realplay/realplay_10.0.9-0feisty1_i386.deb

I'm not aware of what changed in 11, but not having to faff around installing it by hand has to be a good thing!
Philip wrote, Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

Chris :) Thanks for the link, I haven't tried installing it, but I have taken a look at the included files. One thing that bugged me about the RealPlayer installation was the way in which it hijacked some of my tango audio icons, replacing them with Real branded ones. Luckily, the download from Real's site provided a shell script to restore the original icons, when I checked the deb package the shell scripts were not present. I am unsure whether the shell scripts were introduced in version 11, or whether they have been omitted from the deb build.
dtg wrote, Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

thnx it works correctly
TYB wrote, Saturday, May 31st, 2008

Hi guys, I just downloaded the Real Player 10 binary for Gutsy from canonical website: http://archive.canonical.com/pool/partner/r/realplay/realplay_10.0.9-1gutsy1.tar.gz

I converted it to .deb package. (you need to have "alien" installed). sudo alien -dv ..gz

It will convert the binary from .tar.gz to .deb, this way you can easily install the package and It will be added into the Synaptic Package Manager.

It did not create the icon in the Application's Sound & Video menu, however I edited the menu and added the New Element and selected the icon from: realplay-10.0.9/share/icons/. It is working fine so far.

I hope this help you because it was a pain in the ass getting rid from Real Player 11 GOLD, as there is not uninstall feature.
KZoli wrote, Saturday, September 6th, 2008

Hey, thx for the link! It works fine!!!
Topaix wrote, Thursday, September 18th, 2008

This may be helpful. Very simple approach.

http://techies.topaix.com/forum/48-install-real-player-on-ubuntu.htm
Philip wrote, Thursday, September 18th, 2008

@Topaix: Thank you for the link :)

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