Saturday, May 29, 2010

Realplayer 11 under ubuntu 10.4 amd64

Just to remember me (and perhaps to help others) how to install realplayer (32bits version) under ubuntu 10.4 amd64.

Few weeks ago I've decided to go forward and to fully use my PC with a amd64 inside. As I definitively trashed MS windows, I've installed a ubuntu 10.4 AMD64 OS. And to listen my favorite "chronique du matin" lhumeurde, I need realplayer.
First at all I've download the package .deb from here, but when I've tried to install with the command:
sudo dpkg -i RealPlayer11GOLD.deb
it says:  npackage architecture (i386) does not match system (amd64)  :-(

After a few seconds of google search, I've found we can force the installation with the option --force-architecture.
sudo dpkg --force-architecture -i RealPlayer11GOLD.deb

After a stop/start firefox when I click on the link my_chronical I've just to say to use with /opt/real/RealPlayer/realplay.bin, and voila I can heard my favorite chronical.

NB: before the realplayer installation I had already installed the needed 32bits library to run 32bits executables.