Benjamin,

Realplayer is not open source so you have to get it from Real Player.

  www.realplayer.org

-Connie Sieh

On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Benjamin Sher wrote:

> Dear Troy:
> 
> I would appreciate your advice on RealPlayer. I recall from the article I read 
> yesterday on Yum that the author specifically advised users of yum never to 
> install any rpm the old fashioned way in /usr/local/. Unfortunately, since I 
> am a Russian translator, I need RealPlayer to play my Russian stations. I 
> thought Helix could do it, but it does not play any proprietary formats like 
> ra and rm. Only RealPlayer can play their own formats. Here is the URL for 
> the page listing the RealPlayer rpm for RHEL 4 (right after the list for 
> Helix):
> 
> https://helixcommunity.org/project/showfiles.php?group_id=154
> 
> What would be the best and safest way to install it? A straight install with 
> rpm -ivh or recompiling from source? Or is there a version of it especially 
> for SL? Would appreciate your advice.
> 
> No problem with WMP and Quicktime. These are taken care of by the Mplayer 
> plugin (both audio and video), though I am having some minor configuration 
> issues on that, which I am sure will be resolved soon.
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Benjamin
>