Thomas Guide: RealPlayer

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Written by Thomas Chung on 2005-07-14

Thomas Guide is a step-by-step screenshot based User Guide for a Linux Newbie (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newbie).

This week, I'll discuss how to install RealPlayer on Fedora Core 4 and trouble shoot any problem.

Step 1

Go to http://www.real.com and scroll down to where it says Download RPM Package.

Step 2

Click on the link to open a Dialog and make sure to choose Open with Install Packages (default)

Step 3

Click on OK then type password for root.

Step 4

Click OK to prepare for the installation and click Continue to install.

Step 5

To make sure you can launch the program from a command line, type realplay from a terminal.

Notice, it's missing a library to launch the program.

Step 6

To install the missing library, use yum to install a package which contains the missing library.

In this case, type sudo yum install libstdc++.so.5 from a terminal.

Step 7

Now, you should be able to launch RealPlayer from a terminal without any problem.

Step 8

To verify if a plugin for RealPlayer has been installed in your browser, type about:plugins in the URL.