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how make an installed application available through menu

Asked by kukutla sateesh

hi!
i am new to linux since the media player availble through ubuntu linux nee some pulgins to play video and audio
of diff format,i downloaded realplayer 11Gold.bin and i executed the commands
chomod +x realplayer.bin
and
./realplayer.bin
then after it is asking a file path to write the installed packages
which path i should give inorder to lunch it in my menubar,desktop and i want to make it useful as if it is given by the ubuntu.I heard the path should be /usr/local/bin but the permission to write is denied......
so kindly help for my problem
thak you

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Shane Fagan (shanepatrickfagan) said : 		#1

what plugin are you looking for? because installing a file like that is very difficult in linux the easiest way is to install a package using synaptic. Most of the plugins are available in the http://www.medibuntu.org/

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kukutla sateesh (satish842) said : 		#2

Thanks shane fagan, that solved my question.

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#3

To install Realplayer 11

http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu:Hardy#Installing_Real_Player_11_and_Configuring_Mozilla_Plugin

Hope this helps

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kukutla sateesh (satish842) said : 		#4

plugins gstream and others.I installed the real palyer by writing the pakages on desktop but there is no provision for my application to appear in menu,after writing the installed packages i have to run realplayer then only it is displying the application,

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Best marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#5

I never installed Real_player, but i have installed now to help you,

1) - Open Firefox and download RealPlayer from: http://www.real.com/linux

Open a terminal and change directory where the RealPlayer11GOLD.bin was previously saved in my test i have it on my Desktop.

cd Desktop
chmod 770 RealPlayer11GOLD.bin
sudo ./RealPlayer11GOLD.bin

give your user password when requested, you don't see nothing when you type it, then press enter.

After installed, to force loading and refresh of your app menu, still using terminal type:

killall gnome-panel

The RealPlayer launcher icon is is under Applications->sound & video menu

Hope this helps

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kukutla sateesh (satish842) said : 		#6

Thanks marcobra, that solved my question.