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Real Player 11

1. Introduction
2. Installing Real Player 11
2.1 Download 32-bit Installer
2.2 Download 64-bit Installer
2.3 The Installer

Introduction

At the time of writing there is not a .deb package available for Real Player 11 and 64bit installer is only available from the nightly builds.

Installing Real Player 11

First download Real Player for your hardware architecture.

Download 32-bit Installer

First download the installer and make it executable.

 wget http://www.real.com/realcom/R?href=http://forms.real.com/real/player/download.html?f=unix/RealPlayer11GOLD.bin -O RealPlayer11GOLD-i386.bin
 chmod 755 ./RealPlayer11GOLD-i386.bin

Download 64-bit Installer

First download the installer and make it executable.

 wget http://software-dl.real.com/02695fb5f847b9bdb205/helix/20080701/player_all-realplay_gtk_current-20080701-linux-2.6-glibc23-amd64/realplay-11.1.0.1022-linux-2.6-glibc23-amd64.bin -O RealPlayer11NIGHTLY-amd64.bin
 chmod 755 RealPlayer11NIGHTLY-amd64.bin

The Installer

Now run the appropriate installer, as root.

32-bit Installer

 sudo ./RealPlayer11GOLD-i386.bin

64-bit Installer

 sudo aptitude install libstdc++5
 sudo ./RealPlayer11NIGHTLY-amd64.bin

Follow the prompts, the defaults are sane.

 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...
 
 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]: 
 
 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]: 
 
 Real Player 11 will now install the file.
 
 Copying RealPlayer files....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.

Post Installation Fixes

The 64-bit nightly build I grabbed had incorrect directory permissions after the install.

 sudo chmod 755 /opt/real/RealPlayer/

NOTE! Ths stuff below doesn't actually fix anything on my 64-bit systems. I still get garbled audio from Real Player.

While the RealPlayer 11 installation is seamless for Firefox 2 and Epiphany the same cannot be said for Firefox 3 because directory locations have been changed such plugins are now found in '/usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins'. The result is that copies of, or symbolic links to, 'nphelix.xpt' and 'nphelix.so' are needed in that location. The following commands do the trick:

 sudo ln -s /opt/real/RealPlayer/mozilla/nphelix.xpt /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins/nphelix.xpt
 sudo ln -s /opt/real/RealPlayer/mozilla/nphelix.so /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins/nphelix.so

To cap it all 'libtotem-complex-plugin.so' needs to be disabled, by removing the sym-links to it, because it will still take precedence over the Real Player plugin.

 sudo rm /usr/lib/xulrunner-addons/plugins/libtotem-complex-plugin.xpt
 sudo rm /usr/lib/xulrunner-addons/plugins/libtotem-complex-plugin.so

References

$Id: RealPlayer,v 1.10 2008/07/02 13:26:01 martin Exp $

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