Re: RealPlayer 10 for Debian?

[Benjamin Sher <delphi123@zebra.net>]

On Tuesday 12 July 2005 07:27 pm, Kent West wrote:
> Benjamin Sher wrote:
> >On Tuesday 12 July 2005 06:50 pm, Darryl Clarke wrote:
> >>On 7/12/05, delphi123@zebra.net <delphi123@zebra.net> wrote:
> >>>Dear friends:
> >>>
> >>>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.
> >>
> >>http://www.real.com/linux?pcode=rn&src=freeplayer_partner&opage=freeplaye
> >>r_partner
> >>
> >>There's no .deb that I'm aware of.  Their installer works fine though.
> >
> >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?
>
> 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

Dear Kent:

I've downloaded the "bin" version of RealPlayer 10. I imagine that this is the 
one I should install (rather than converting the rpm to deb with alien). 
Where does the "bin" install to: /usr/local? If so, could I use stow?

What's your recommendation?

Thank you.

Benjamin