realplay install does not work

[onioneater36]

there is a section (6.27) on how to install realplayer 10 with the command

sudo apt-get install realplay

which does not seem to work. When I run this command I get...

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
E: Couldn't find package realplay


Any suggestions?

[croak77]

It's realplayer not realplay and only realplayer 8 is in the repo.

For realplayer 10. open a terminal and type,

sudo apt-get install libstdc++5
wget -c http://www.debian-multimedia.org/pool/main/r/realplay/realplayer_10.0.7-0.0_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i realplayer_10.0.7-0.0_i386.deb

[onioneater36]

Thanks croak77... That worked until I tried to install Totem and now it does not work anymore. I am really beginning to hate Linux with real hate. I have a TON of PC experience but just cannot seem to get things working in Linux. Or I'll get 1 thing working, but it breaks something else. Fix that, something else breaks. I am determined to keep learning, but Thank God for Windows or I would spend way too much time completely detesting computers.

Before you folks flame me, please keep in mind for the past week I have been trying 2 very basic things...

1) Install Ubuntu (have had success at this)
2) Get all the mozilla plugins to enjoy all the multimedia content at www.packers.com (Green Bay Packers website). [CANNOT BELIEVE HOW FRIGGIN REDICULOUS THIS IS TO GET WORKING. HAVE TRIED AUTOMATIX, EASY UBUNTU {Laugh Inserted Here cuz this thing sucked royally}, SUDO APT-GET UP THE WAZOO, SYNAPTEC, etc, etc, etc]

If anyone knows a really good source of documentation for a complete Linux idiot to get decent multimedia working in Mozilla Firefox in Ubuntu, please post a link here. I would like to be able to play...

Real audio and video, windows audio & video, Flash plugin, Java, etc. Why can't I get this going? Is it really worth it when windows does all this for me (the answer here is yes, I am just very frustrated at this challenge).

Help Please

[croak77]

The best place is to search the Wiki. There is a link in the upper right corner of the forum. For multimedia go here;

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats

I'd suggest installing mplayer and the firefox plugin called mozilla-mplayer. You will need the w32codecs.

For java;

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Java

[fatsheep]

Thanks croak77... That worked until I tried to install Totem and now it does not work anymore. I am really beginning to hate Linux with real hate. I have a TON of PC experience but just cannot seem to get things working in Linux. Or I'll get 1 thing working, but it breaks something else. Fix that, something else breaks. I am determined to keep learning, but Thank God for Windows or I would spend way too much time completely detesting computers.

Before you folks flame me, please keep in mind for the past week I have been trying 2 very basic things...

1) Install Ubuntu (have had success at this)
2) Get all the mozilla plugins to enjoy all the multimedia content at www.packers.com (Green Bay Packers website). [CANNOT BELIEVE HOW FRIGGIN REDICULOUS THIS IS TO GET WORKING. HAVE TRIED AUTOMATIX, EASY UBUNTU {Laugh Inserted Here cuz this thing sucked royally}, SUDO APT-GET UP THE WAZOO, SYNAPTEC, etc, etc, etc]

If anyone knows a really good source of documentation for a complete Linux idiot to get decent multimedia working in Mozilla Firefox in Ubuntu, please post a link here. I would like to be able to play...

Real audio and video, windows audio & video, Flash plugin, Java, etc. Why can't I get this going? Is it really worth it when windows does all this for me (the answer here is yes, I am just very frustrated at this challenge).

Help Please

That's how I was about a month ago and it's also the reason linux isn't the dominant OS on the market. Yes it's better from the base up but some things are just much much harder then they should be. The good news is that the Ubuntu devs aren't stupid and the OS will get easier to use with time.

[Rory]

The guide's instructions on installing realplayer should work. "realplay' should do the trick, not realplayer.

Check the repository list in the guide to ensure you have all the repos added. Canonical just added a commercial repo that has... real player 10.0.8. So, once that repo is added, you shouldn't have a problem.

As was suggested by others, also be sure to install java, mozilla plugin for Firefox, Flash and all the codecs and the dvd packages, as described in the guide. Once done, most things should work. If a site requires the new version of Flash, it won't work in Firefox unless you installed Wine and then install the Windows version of Firefox and the Windows flash player 8. Otherwise, most things should work.

If you like tweaking, Linux is for you. If you don't, you may find it frustrating. It has come a long way, very quickly, in terms of ease of use, but it still has a ways to go, especially in terms of viewing online media content. This is often because sites feel they can get away with only using Windows-only products to serve up their content. It's always good to email them and request Linux support.

Be patient. I hope you develop a love for Linux and find ubuntuforums and ubuntuguide.org helpful. We always are happy to see new people coming to Linux for the first time.

And don't forget: be sure to add all the repositories listed in Ubuntuguide. You'll find it here for Dapper:
http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Dapper#How_to_add_extra_repositories


Rory

[onioneater36]

Rory & croak77, I sincerely appreciate the help.

Rory... I will re-check my /etc/apt/sources.list and make sure I have the proper repos. I have actually made some significant progress in the past day. I at least got realplayer working using the .deb package available on the debian distros using...

wget -c http://www.debian-multimedia.org/pool/main/r/realplay/realplayer_10.0.7-0.0_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i realplayer_10.0.7-0.0_i386.deb

This being said, however, I still have some multimedia contect I cannot view on http://www.packers.com/ (Green Bay Packers) but I think I have a better understanding as to why. In their MULTIMEDIA area they have VIDEO CLIPS that you can view in either REAL VIDEO or WINDOWS MEDIA. The problem I have discovered is that the links look like this for each one...

REAL VIDEO
http://play.rbn.com/?url=nfl/nfl/open/packers/demand/PressConferences/060922colledge.rm&proto=rtsp
WINDOWS MEDIA
http://play.rbn.com/?url=nfl/nfl/open/packers/wmdemand/nongame/060922colledge.wmv&proto=rtsp

As you can see, they use http protocol to direct the browser to play.rbn.com and then do some sort of redirect with the rtsp protocol. Realplayer seems to handle this, but sometimes I have to hit the play button 3 or 4 times to make it work (or hit the VIEW LARGER IN PLAYER WINDOWS option in the plugin).

I cannot view the WINDOWS MEDIA at all. I found one forum where you go to "about:config" in firefox and add "network.protocol-handler.app.rtsp = /usr/lib/realplay" and another variable similar gets set to true. This was supposed to make firefox handle the rtsp using realplayer to do the protocol work, but it still doesn't seem to work right.

I have been having a much better time with multimedia and plugins on just about any other website that doesn't use goofy redirection links like packers.com.

As far as my frustration on earlier posts in this thread, I would like to mention to the developers of Ubuntu how AMAZINGLY IMPRESSED I am with Ubuntu. It is far and away the best distro I have ever used. Even though I got frustrated with what I cannot do, I cannot believe how much I CAN do in the short time I have been using it. It also is helping me learn linux better that previous distros had (thanks to it being much easier to use and the Ubuntu community). I have Ubuntu on my lappy right now and have wireless working (WEP only, WPA was intermittent), but I cannot see going back to WinXP on my lappy. Ubuntu is working too well.

Thanks again for all your help. I'll do some research on those redirect links mentioned earlier and how to handle rtsp protocol, but if you have any hints, I'd certainly appreciate them. :cool:

[Murwiz]

The guide's instructions on installing realplayer should work. "realplay' should do the trick, not realplayer.

Check the repository list in the guide to ensure you have all the repos added. Canonical just added a commercial repo that has... real player 10.0.8. So, once that repo is added, you shouldn't have a problem.

I'm also having problems here.

I replaced my entire sources.list (with backup) using the list given here:

http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Dapper#How_to_add_extra_repositories

which includes:

deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu dapper-commercial main

Did the "apt-get update" step, and still:

# apt-get install realplay
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
E: Couldn't find package realplay

[Phototrek1]

Thanks, I was looking to install Real player 10 and it works. :)

[argus1881]

Thanks, I was looking to install Real player 10 and it works. :)

i had the same problem ](*,)