Easiest way to Install Real Player

[Brutal Ben]

1) Download the version of RealPlayer thats prepackaged for Xandros Linux. Its a .deb package that works under Hoary.

https://helixcommunity.org/download....86.deb.tar.bz2

2) Uncompress the .tar.zp2 file to get realplay_10.0.2-1_i386.deb

3) Open a command line shell and cd into the directory that you saved the deb file, (default is ~/Desktop

4) Use Sudo to install the file: sudo dpkg -i realplay_10.0.2-1_i386.deb

Unfortunately as of this writing, Real Player conflicts with Enlightened Sound Daemon. You'll need to use gconf and set /desktop/gnome/sound/enable_esd to false (uncheck its box) to disable it. Reboot, and you should be all set.

If you disable ESD you can still use gstreamer by: setting/system/gstreamer/0.8/default/audiosink=alsasink

Hopefully in the near future ESD will not interfere with OSS applications, or gnome switches completely to ALSA which is mult-threading now.

[Jad]

Thank you
Helix can be installed but cant play .rm files

[tanari]

Why not use RealPlayer10?
www.real.com
download and launch .bin file (with sudo), very simple.

[bored2k]

Why not use RealPlayer10?
www.real.com
download and launch .bin file (with sudo), very simple.

Because sometimes the Player will just not open.

Xandros's RealPlayer is 10.0.2 [at least your link is], RP is on 10.0.3 now. And for anyone getting the anoying "it just won't open", disable the sound server and retry.

[Brutal Ben]

Note for Kubuntu users!
K
The package I mentioned doesn't seem to get along with Kubuntu (specifically kdelibs-data). My error log is:


dpkg -i realplay_10.0.2-1_i386.deb
Selecting previously deselected package realplay.
(Reading database ... 101551 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking realplay (from realplay_10.0.2-1_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing realplay_10.0.2-1_i386.deb (--install):
trying to overwrite `/usr/share/mimelnk/application/vnd.rn-realmedia.desktop', which is also in package kdelibs-data
Errors were encountered while processing:
realplay_10.0.2-1_i386.deb

Real Player seems to be an odd sticking point for Ubuntu. I hope the hylix community can get Real player to support Esound and Alsa again!!

[mesocool]

Because sometimes the Player will just not open.

Xandros's RealPlayer is 10.0.2 [at least your link is], RP is on 10.0.3 now. And for anyone getting the anoying "it just won't open", disable the sound server and retry.

Yes, my realplay cannot open but I see it in the system monitor with sleeping status.. Why it's that?

[Jad]

I think Hoary wont let realplayer run because it try to take the sound system for itself, and wont allow other application to use it at the same time.

[fsman]

My hoary system is uptodate and installing realplayer was simple just follow this

http://www.elyps.de/guide.html#realplayer

the important part is in english, so don't mind the .de

[Gianni Exile]

My hoary system is uptodate and installing realplayer was simple just follow this

http://www.elyps.de/guide.html#realplayer

the important part is in english, so don't mind the .de

This work perfectly. thank you.

[Brutal Ben]

Yes, my realplay cannot open but I see it in the system monitor with sleeping status.. Why it's that?

The source code to Hylix (and Real Player) does support ALSA, Esound, and Art. According to the developers the support for these 3 are too buggy, so they disabled the three during compiling. Any adventurest linux programmer with a nack for sound should sign up to help debug Helix. Make a .deb for us Ubuntu folks.