RealPlayer 8

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, Walter Dnes wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 03:29:53PM -0800, Mel Seder wrote
> > I'm using RedHat Fedora CORE 1 and the other day I downloaded the RPM
> > for Real Player 8 and when I went to install it I was told that it was
> > already installed.  I didn't find a .realplayer directory in root or in
> > ~.
> >
> > I can't see an icon for it in the menu.  What is the name of the file I
> > should execute?
>
>   You know the saying about "give a man a fish versus teaching him how
> to fish".  "man find" is your friend.  "find / -iname filename* > x"
> does a case-insensitive search through your entire system for the
> wildcarded filename* and spit the results out to file x.  You may prefer
> to do the search as root, because that eliminates error messages about
> acces-denied.  Here's the search, and it's results on my non-standard
> layout.
>
> [23:43:10][/root] find / -iname realplay*

    The -ls operator is useful here, so that you can see whether a
    file is executable:

find / -iname "realplay*" -ls

    And locate is much faster, though the database will have to be
    rebuilt (updatedb as root), to find something you have just
    installed.

    On most distros updatedb is run every night, so if it's been on
    your system for a day, then locate should find it:

locate -i realplay

-- 
	Chris F.A. Johnson                      http://cfaj.freeshell.org
	=================================================================
                Everything in moderation -- including moderation
--
The Toronto Linux Users Group.      Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org
TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns
How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml