Monday, July 19, 2010

Install RealPlayer on BackTrack Linux 4

Okay I couldn't find a post for this on the net, so here it is. If you notice the real player version available from real.com is 11 which doesn't get installed on BackTrack 4 because of backtrack having some older versions of packages while RealPlayer requires newer versions. This itself is odd since RealPlayer 11 was released in 2007 while BackTrack got released this year (2010). Wonders, wonders. Any way, instead of messing your system upgrading backtrack packages using other repositories (which then might not be compatible with BT4), the safe bet is to install real player 10. To do this, edit /etc/apt/sources.list file and add the following line to it:

deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu dapper-commercial main

save the file, do apt-get update and then apt-get install realplay
and you're done.

ref: http://www.debianadmin.com/install-opera-web-broweser-and-realplayer-10-in-ubuntu.html

No comments: