Wishing to listen to BBC Radio 3 live I have followed the link to RealPlayer given on the BBC web-site and have installed RealPlayer 11. But I cannor find it anywhere in the list of applications under any category.
Where is it and how do I start it?
Try to start it from Konsole with this command (I’m not sure about executable, you can type real and hit TAB key 2x in Konsole):
realplay
Wow, that’s rather interesting. As I use Gnome, I initiated Realplayer in a terminal window. It started realplayer configuration which completed successfully and presented me with a windowed version of the player. But once I had closed that window, there was no icon for realplayer to be found on my system.
So, I started Konsole and followed your instructions accurately. The result is:
“** (process:9614): WARNING **: Unsupported locale en_GB! Please use a locale with .UTF-8 suffix! For example: export LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8”
I love Linux. So meaningful…
I conclude from this that either RealPlayer or OpenSuse 11.1 are still being developed and don’t work properly together yet.
Does this help:
How to install and Configure Real player in OpenSuse | SUSE & openSUSE
(Note that it does not link to the latest version of realplayer. Though you already have it and just need to configure it?)
Thanks for this pointer and apologies for the long delay in acknowledging your help.
Sadly, as in everything else I try in Linux, it doesn’t work in my installation.
The installation of RealPlayer completed as illustrated in the guide, but then I was faced with the same question that I started with when this thread was initiated: WWhere is it and how do I start it?
I finally found what appears to be an executable for REalPlayer in the Opt directory but this crashed and burned as soon as I clicked on it.
Is there a reliable way to install Real Player when using Gnome so that it appears in the catalog of programs (in the Control Centre, I think) and - hopefully - does not immediately crash?
BBC radio via iPlayer is flash based, well it is for me.
If you must: Install real with the .rpm download
from the download location open a terminal and do
rpm -ihv package_name
you can type the first letter or two of the package name and then the TAB key and it will auto complete, then hit enter
all done from a su terminal
OK, let’s get some basic things straight first. As you noticed, RealPlayer installs to /opt. The executable you see is not for clicking on. It’s a shell script. you can execute it by doing something like this /opt/real/RealPlayer/./realplay
Secondly, the error message you got means your locale isn’t set right. It even told you how to fix it. Open konsole and run this.
export LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
You could also install the GB locale.
Basic things - OK, I’ll certainly go along with that suggestion (all my attempts at anything else end with cryptic error messages).
But first some comments:
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After I install RealPlayer 10 from the binary I do not have a directory /opt/real - so I cannot run the script you suggest
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“You could also install the GB locale”: this may be accurate, but in the present tense it should say “I can’t install the GB locale” because I have no idea what it means nor how it is done.
Then I guess it will be for me too - but what does this mean that I have to do, in practice? I was just following the BBC instructions (from 6 months ago, admittedly) and could make no progress with installing a working version of RealPlayer (or of removing the resultant mess). I found this quite de-motivating, so took another sabbatical away from struggling with Linux.
If you don’t have /opt/real, then you haven’t elevating yourself to root. Root is to Linux/Unix what “Administrator” is to Windows. To become root type su and hit enter. You will be prompted for roots password. Enter that and hit enter. You’ll notice the command line changes from $ to #. The # indicates you are now root.
As to installing software, read this YaST/Modules/Software Management - openSUSE and this Add Package Repositories to YaST - openSUSE