> advice please;
> would like to download the realplayer from the site mentioned earlier
> 
>> http://www.real.com/freeplayer/?rppr=rnwk
> 
> 
> went there and the choices for OS do not match mine. i have redhat 9. 
> should i use the rh6.2 alpha or rh6.2sparc  or should i not do this at all?
> thanks in advance.

Neither.  You don't have a sparc or alpha machine, so what you want is the 
"Linux 2.x (libc6 i386) rpm" selection.