#Realplayer review 2016 install
#Realplayer review 2016 full
#Realplayer review 2016 license

On first launch I was greeted by a nice clean new setup screen which stepped me through the Release Notes and License Agreement. I also found ‘libgtkhx.so’ in my /usr/lib/realplay directory so I linked it to mozilla’s plugin directory just in case (doubt if this one matters, but thought I should mention it in case it does help). I made symlinks to my mozilla-1.7/plugins directory for the two Real plugins found in my /usr/local/RealPlayer10/mozilla : ‘nphelix.so’ and ‘nphelix.xpt’. Found the nice new Real icon in the Slackware /usr/share/pixmaps directory. Gnome 2.6 even showed a menu listing for RealPlayer 10 (Figure 2). I checked in /usr/local/RealPlayer10/ and found the usual collection of Real files and the ‘realplay’ executable.

# specify directory: /usr/local/RealPlayer10 (typical Slack path) # chmod a+x RealPlayer10GOLD.bin (make it executable)

#Realplayer review 2016 install

Install was straight forward following Real’s brief instructions on the website. My focus here is on RP10 since I am primarily interested in streaming RealAudio. You can learn more about the great new HelixPlayer1 project and how it relates to RealPlayer 10 at the Helix Community website. There are lots of major changes so that is why I went to such an extreme to test it in a clean and pure install.

This is the JGTK+2 based package which sports a total rewrite from the years-old version we have all been running (Figure 1). I went to the new RealPlayer 10 website ( and downloaded the 6762kb RealPlayer10GOLD.bin file. Install went smooth and I chose not to do any of my usual final configuration tweaks.

#Realplayer review 2016 full

I decided to take the full leap and loaded the Slack 10 CD’s optional 2.6.7 kernel, Gnome 2.6.2, new Alsa 1.0.5 drivers, the latest Nvidia 1.0-6111 driver, GCC 3.3.4, and Mozilla 1.7. My main concern about the new RealPlayer10 (RP10) was that it might break some of my older scripts and applications that I use to rip ogg audio files. I already have Slack 10 running in another partition on this machine with RealPlayer8 so I can compare the new and old on the same hardware. My test box is a home built Abit AI7 mb, Pentium4 2.4GHz, 512MB ddr, 60GB Maxtor, Geforce3 ti500 video my trusty old Ensoniq 5880 audio card and nice high-speed cable broadband. My main linux machines all run Slackware and Dropline Gnome so it seemed best to work with a ‘plain vanilla’ clean install. Since I was not sure how this might impact my production machines I decided to just slap a new instance of Slackware 10 on a spare partition of my test box. The recent announcement of RealPlayer 10 for Linux caught my eye and I decided it was worth taking it for a test drive. I confess I am a BBC Radio addict living in the USA and streaming audio is my only way to listen. I had bitter feelings about RealNetworks products and practices years ago, but over the last couple of years I find that RealPlayer8 is one of the first apps I open on my linux machines.