Hi,
as an absolute newbie I downloaded my first application. RealPlayer11GOLD.rpm
From info on this forum, I managed to install the package with the rpm command as root on openSuSE 11.1
When done, it said finished.
But now I cannot find the player. Where do I go wrong?
Open a terminal and type:
realplay
I think that’s correct, then hit enter.
It should setup mozilla helpers which is OK, reject any request to update, it will fail.
11.1 is ending support soon
Lifetime - openSUSE
Realplayer sucks BTW and is not needed.
I didn’t know people were still using RealPlayer …
I don’t know the exact name of the RealPlayer package. But you can try …
rpm -ql $(rpm -qa | grep -i real) | grep -i real
It should display some relevant filenames.
It might still be available in an openSUSE repo … I dunno.
I also hate realplayer, but I need something for dvd playback. What do you suggest?
There are a lot: mplayer, dragonPlayer (KDE), totem (Gnome), vlc, etc
- I’m not sure dragonPlayer was already in 11.1
I tried your command and indeed a long list of files. But (dumb question) how do I get it running ?
Is it may be a better idea to upgrade to 11.3 first. If so, can I do that from this running version?
I just wanted to find out the name of the application (but it’s probably ‘realplay’) and if it installed a desktop file (to provide an entry in KDE or Gnome menu).
Definitely!
That, I don’t know … But caf4926 will tell you.
You need to do a fresh install
Keeping /home is possible but you retain crud and an older file system
I say backup and format everything with a fresh install.
nothing in the KDE menu.
I will try to install 11.3
thanks for the help.
You can view a couple of installs here:
Picasa Web Albums - carl fletcher - openSUSE 11.2…
Picasa Web Albums - carl fletcher - 11.3 Slideshow
On 2010-11-15 22:36, annevance wrote:
> Is it may be a better idea to upgrade to 11.3 first. If so, can I do
> that from this running version?
Not till you gain experience 
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” at Telcontar)
On 2010-11-15 22:06, caf4926 wrote:
> Realplayer sucks BTW and is not needed.
I need it sometimes for playing “3gp” files created by my Nokia cell phone.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” at Telcontar)
.3gp is only a container format. It’s actual content (MPEG-4 in most cases) can be played by the usual players.
On 2010-11-17 00:06, gropiuskalle wrote:
>
> “robin_listas” Wrote:
>> I need it sometimes for playing “3gp” files created by my Nokia cell
>> phone.
>
> 3gp is only a container format. It’s actual content (MPEG-4 in most
> cases) can be played by the usual players.
Not really. Xine doesn’t, sound is borked: it plays a shrill sound, stops,
again the shrill sound, stop… Mplayer does play it now, it did not a
month ago.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” at Telcontar)
For me they always worked with MPlayer (but I haven’t come across that many .3gps, so my testing doesn’t say much).
A lot of this thread has been about ‘realplayer’, an app which I have the privilege to know nothing about. However:
To install stuff, have you tried ‘install and remove aplications’ (or, equivalently, Yast > Install software). The advantages of this approach are
- you can do things like ‘search’ and specifically you might try to search for ‘DVD’ or ‘player’ and get useful hits (in this case, you’ll probably have to add something like pacman for codecs, though). In general, you’ll find this an easier way of installing stuff than playing with rpms directly, fun though that can be.
- it should make the necessary menu changes automatically for you. maybe this only works 95% of the time, but it is normally something you don’t have to do, because it is done for you
So, another question is ‘why do you want to find the app, given that you shouldn’t need to find it, in order to use it?’
well, assuming that you do want to find it (or anything else), for whatever reason, you can use locate, if installed. Now
locate appname
will turn up anything with appname anywhere in the path. You might find that config files often turn up, and they are usually somewhere in /etc, so you could go for
locate appname | grep -v /etc
or, additionally excluding stuff in /share or /lib, which are unlikely to be the app itself
locate appname | grep -v /etc|grep -v /share|grep -v /lib
or, a potentially better approach, if you are prepared to gamble that it is in /usr (not the only possibility, but a moderately probable one), you might try
locate appname | grep /usr
So, in short, you should always find it possible to locate stuff (that was actually two unhelpful puns, not one: Sorry), if you are happy to put in a little effort.
markone, this can be solved much easier by using the command ‘which’, it will tell you the path of the executable binary of an application.
NAME
which - shows the full path of (shell) commands.
SYNOPSIS
which [options] --] programname ...]
DESCRIPTION
Which takes one or more arguments. For each of its arguments it prints to stdout
the full path of the executables that would have been executed when this argument
had been entered at the shell prompt. It does this by searching for an executable
or script in the directories listed in the environment variable PATH using the
same algorithm as bash(1).
Example:
kalle@hoppers:~> which smplayer
/usr/bin/smplayer
“which” is best.
If that’s not sufficient for some reason, I just get a list of the files installed using whatever RPM manager, eg YAST. If you use YAST, all installed files are listed, some are in bold (I assume those in bold are considered “primary” because not all are executable strictly speaking).
Tony
On 2010-11-17 20:06, markone wrote:
> A lot of this thread has been about ‘realplayer’, an app which I have
> the privilege to know nothing about. However:
The thing is, the OP asked how to start realplayer, because that’s the
application he installed. That’s why we talk about RP all the time here 
Being a non-openSUSE app, it doesn’t conform to our standards, but being an
rpm, it can be known easily:
rpm -ql rpmname | grep bin/
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” at Telcontar)