installing real player

[nastradamus87]

i'll start by stating the obvious. i am an extreme linux noob. i really don't know how do to anything, which is what brings me here.

i'm trying to play an mp3. to do that i need to install real player. i have it downloaded real player and now have RealPlayer10GOLD.bin sitting on my desktop. i tried following these installation instructions:

- Ensure that the .bin file you downloaded is executable. You can make the .bin file executable by running the "chmod a+x RealPlayer10GOLD.bin" command from a terminal window.

- Run the .bin file by typing "./RealPlayer10GOLD.bin". Follow the prompts provided to finish installing the player.

edit: when i try the comman in terminal it just says directory does on exist or something like that


- When you launch the player for the first time, a set-up assistant will take you through configuring your player.

- Enjoy your RealPlayer10 for Linux!


which i found at www,real,com/linux/
can someone explain as simplely as possible how to install this? thanks

[und0]

Originally Posted by nastradamus87

i'm trying to play an mp3. to do that i need to install real player.

Nope.

It depends on your distribution, but you'll find better mp3 players like Rithmbox, BeepMediaPlayer, XMMS, XMMS2, Amarok and lot others (here, "apt-cache search mp3 | grep player | wc" reports 59 hits)...

[Lunovus]

The Real Player for Linux you got there is compiled for computers using a x86 CPU (read PCs).

The PS3 has a PowerPC compatible CPU and thus can't use binaries that are compiled for x86.

Try to get packages that are prepared specifically for PowerPC Linux and/or PS3.

In your case download the LiveCD from here and use Audacious which is a very nice media-player application.

Later (in your case maybe much later) compile your stuff on the PS3 by getting the sources and building them yourself (make is your friend).

Learn how Linux works and learn how to use Linux to understand what you are doing.

That means a lot of reading and trial and error.

Good places to start:
http://www.linux.org/lessons/beginner/index.html
http://tldp.org/LDP/intro-linux/html/index.html
http://www.linuxquestions.org/

And don't panic, it's just computers not rocket science

[nastradamus87]

ah i see. well no wonder it wouldn't work. thanks for the info.

and fortunately for me i just started a c++ class so maybe i'll know what i'm doing sooner than you thought