Re: RealPlayer 10 for Debian?

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Benjamin Sher wrote:

>On Tuesday 12 July 2005 06:50 pm, Darryl Clarke wrote:
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>>On 7/12/05, delphi123@zebra.net <delphi123@zebra.net> wrote:
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>>>Dear friends:
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>>>Is there a special Debian package for RealPlayer 10? Since it is a
>>>commercial package, I'd imagine that it's not part of Sarge itself.
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>>http://www.real.com/linux?pcode=rn&src=freeplayer_partner&opage=freeplayer_partner
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>>There's no .deb that I'm aware of.  Their installer works fine though.
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>Thanks for the tip. My problem is that I don't know if Debian allows you to 
>install an RPM? Which RealPlayer package should I install, please?
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Just click on the big yellow button that says "Download Realplayer";
it's a Linux binary. The RPM is under the "Advanced" heading (eh . . ?!).

And to answer your question about RPMs being installed in Debian, many
of them can be installed using the Alien package; as a general rule,
you'd probably rather have a tarball than an RPM, at least in my opinion.

-- 
Kent