Fedora 9: Real Player 11 Installation

If you are a fanatic fan for Real Player multimedia player, here's a quick post on how to install the latest Real Player on Fedora 9.

Real player keeps on improving its major features and interface -it is evolving. Real player gets better and better on every released version. Currently on release version 11, Read player had unleashed version 11 for Linux platforms. Here are a few feature improvements from the Real Player version 11.

Play Windows Media files
Now RealPlayer for Linux allows you to play more video, including popular Windows Media files, RealMedia files and more.

Create Personal Playlists
Get instant access to your favorite songs or video. Easily create, save, edit and manage different playlists for any event or mood.

Enjoy 5.1 Surround Sound
Turn it up and play it loud! Updated multi-channel stereo sound allows you to enjoy 5-channel audio plus a dedicated sub-woofer channel for streaming or playback through either your ALSA or OSS sound system.

Control Live Streams
Need to take a break from a live stream? Just click pause. Perfect Play automatically buffers streaming content. So you can pause, rewind and fast-forward through live broadcasts without missing a thing.

Fedora 9: Real Player 11 Installation

Now, to install Real Player 11, download the latest executable binary from Real Player site

# wget -c http://www.real.com/realcom/R?href=http://forms.real.com/real/player/download.html?f=unix/RealPlayer11GOLD.bin

Make the binary executable


# chmod 700 RealPlayer11GOLD.bin

# ./RealPlayer11GOLD.bin

The above lines will prompt for a few questions, simply press Enter for to proceed with default values.

Execute Real Player
Launch Real Player 11 for Linux like so

# realplay

For more info, visit Real Player site.