* Charles R. Buchanan
Why are there so many different installation technics? rpm, .run, tar.gz, .bin.
different strokes for different distros... There are MANY different distributions who think that their way is better.
I mean right there on the website it tells you how to do it, followed the commands exactly, and it (shell program) says that the file/directory doesn't exist. Maybe (probably) I'm missing something here.
Definitely. The first is to use rpms when using an rpm based system which openSUSE is (unless you *really* know what you are doing).
if the program is "install-realplayer10gold.bin" for instance, The file is in /home/(username), I'm in the directory /home/(username), do a dir and the file is there, I issue the command(s) that is/are listed on the website for this program, what else am I suppose to be doing?
You are supposed to be using the RealPlayer rpm provided on your openSUSE dvd/cd or from one of the openSUSE repositories.
I su'd because that is required to install a program. hmmm?
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