Install Opera Web Browser and Realplayer 10 in Ubuntu
Posted by Admin on October 6th, 2006
If you want to install opera Web browser you need to edit your /etc/apt/sources.list file and enter the source list and save your file.
sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu dapper-commercial main
Now you need to update your source list
sudo apt-get update
Install Opera in Ubuntu
sudo apt-get install opera
After finishing the installation if you want to open opera go to Applications—>Internet–>Opera and you can see in the following screen
Opera web Browser in action
Opera Version Details
You can install Real player 10 using the same source list
Install Real Player 10 in Ubuntu
sudo apt-get install realplay
After finishing the installation if you want to open realplayer go to Applications—>Sound&Video–>RealPlayer 10 and you can see in the following screen
Realplayer 10 in action
November 15th, 2006 at 4:00 pm
by typing the given code for the real player in the terminal it is not installed in my computer it is giving some error
December 10th, 2006 at 11:47 am
Thank you for making it so easy to install RealPlayer10 on my Ubuntu system. I like the programs that come with Ubuntu but prefer the KDE environment wo I can use either desktop. However, now that it is up and running, how can I configure Firefox to recognize it when I go to a site like cnn.com and click on one of their video’s that requires RealPlayer10?
December 10th, 2006 at 12:58 pm
try to follow this and let me know if it works or not
go to /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins
and remove
libtotem-complex-plugin.so,libtotem-complex-plugin.xpt files
Use the following command
sudo rm libtotem-complex-plugin.*
Firefox is preconfigured to play real audio streams with totem. To use the real player plugin you must remove the totem plugin responsible to play these real audio streams.
i hope this helps
December 10th, 2006 at 6:03 pm
Thank you for your prompt answer. I do not have libtotem-complesplugin.so,libtotem-comples-plugin.xpt files in the path you suggested. In the /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins directory I have:
libjavaplugin_oji.so, libunixprintplugin.so, nphelix.so and nphelix.xpt files. There are no other files. Could these plugins be located somewhere else?
Should I still try to use the rm for the plugin you suggested?
December 10th, 2006 at 9:15 pm
by default this should have installed all the required plugins and if you could give me what error you are getting when you try to view real media
December 11th, 2006 at 11:15 am
When I attempt to open a video link a window opens stating: Plugin Warning: The CNN.com video experience is optimized for Windows Media Player 9 or above. No Windows Media detected. There is a link that states get the player.
I installed Opera to see if there was a difference but that didn’t help, either.
January 9th, 2007 at 11:52 am
I have an update to my video playback using Firefox. Unfortunately I have not been able to get a video to play in Firefox or Opera. However, I am running the KDE desktop on Ubuntu and when I open Konqueror, I can view the video files from CNN.
January 23rd, 2007 at 10:26 am
please help me how to install real player 10?
April 10th, 2007 at 2:10 am
When I click the following link on your website:
http://www.debianadmin.com/install-opera-web-broweser-and-realplayer-10-in-ubuntu.html
Nothing happens and realplayer 10 is not installed.
April 10th, 2007 at 5:55 am
i am able to open this link without any problem please check this and let me know
April 25th, 2007 at 2:56 am
No, the commands written here are not working in my installed o.s.(ubuntu).
May 4th, 2008 at 10:24 pm
thnx 4 making it easy. At 1st i thought it wouldn’t work. but it did. lol. Thnx