Enabling Multimedia bits in Centos
Posted on June 26th, 2008
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Centos is the community version and binary compatible version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).
It is 98% of RHEL with the exception that all logos, names and references to Red Hat are removed.
While is a very capable and robust Server OS, it can also be used as a workstation. The missing multimedia bits in Centos has caused many to label it merely good for Server.
To enable multimedia in Centos 5.x, first download the rpmforge rpm from here http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm
Install it by either double clicking on the RPM or issue the following command as root:
rpm -ivh rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm
Install yumex, the GUI front-end for yum:
yum -y install yumex
Once that is done you can launch yumex from the Applications -> System Tools menu or just as root launch it from the CLI by typing...
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It is 98% of RHEL with the exception that all logos, names and references to Red Hat are removed.
While is a very capable and robust Server OS, it can also be used as a workstation. The missing multimedia bits in Centos has caused many to label it merely good for Server.
To enable multimedia in Centos 5.x, first download the rpmforge rpm from here http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm
Install it by either double clicking on the RPM or issue the following command as root:
rpm -ivh rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm
Install yumex, the GUI front-end for yum:
yum -y install yumex
Once that is done you can launch yumex from the Applications -> System Tools menu or just as root launch it from the CLI by typing...
[Read more →]
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