On Thursday 01 Nov 2007, Rob Malpass wrote:
> Hi all
>
> Just a quickie - is RealPlayer available for 64 bit architecture (on Linux)
> yet? If so, has anyone had any joy / trouble installing it?
>
> I bought an AMD64 machine 18 months ago with the intention of playing with
> 64 bit distros etc but when I found realplayer wasn't out, I installed a
> 32-bit Ubuntu OS and RealPlayer works fine. Presumably things have now
> moved on?
Ha ha! a closed source vendor shipping a 64-bit application - you jest, while
the Windows world is still 32-bit the Linux universe is easily 64-bit, you'd
think people would notice...!
The 32-bit version of RealPlayer works perfectly on a 64-bit Debian (and
derived) Linux if you install it in a chroot or install all the ia32 bits.
You can even make it work with a 64-bit version of Firefox without a problem
if you want.
See:
http://www.debian-administration.org/users/ajt/weblog/69
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