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Install Real Player 11 in Fedora 13
15Real Player 11 is quite an advance music player which has been around for quite sometime. The good part is it’s also available for Linux. Installing it on Fedora 13 is no rocket science and works as flawlessly as on windows.
All you have to do is download the rpm package (Download link at the end of the post), double click it and install.
After it’s install you can start it by typing the following commands at Terminal:
cd /opt/real/RealPlayer/ ./realplay
Following are some of the screenshots of the player in action.
Have fun!
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More >Fix ugly plymouth screen on Ubuntu 10.10 using a simple script
6You installed graphic drivers in Ubuntu 10.10, only to find that the plymouth (starting screen) has been screwed up with an ugly resolution. So much for installing graphic drivers. Well we had already covered how to get back the good looking plymouth screen in Ubuntu 10.04. The procedure was mentioned in the post Fix Big and Ugly Plymouth in Ubuntu 10.04 {Lucid Lynx}. This procedure is still valid for Ubuntu 10.10. However, if you want to avoid the hassle of doing it manually and following the step one by one, you can run a small script and fix your ugly looking plymouth screen on Ubuntu More >
Scan your hard disk with GSmartControl on Ubuntu 10.10
5Scanning your hard disk from time ensures that you are not risk of losing any data and that you will be able to safely back up your data if your hard disk showed some critical errors. With Ubuntu (and Linxux in general) you won’t need to buy those expensive softwares for checking the health of your hard drive.
GSmartControl is a graphical application for Linux (Ubuntu 10.10) for scanning your hard drive for errors.
GSmartControl is a graphical user interface for smartctl, which is a tool for querying and controlling SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology) data on modern More >
