FFmpeg contains a number of tools to record, convert, stream and play multimedia content. The following tutorial will guide you through the installation of FFmpeg on either RHEL 5 or CentOS 5. I have chosen running on CentOS but it shouldn’t make a difference either way. Lets get started! Adding the DAG repository The first [...]

In contrast to GNOME 3′s Gnome Shell, Unity is Ubuntu’s take on the next generation of the desktop. In a previous article I went into detail on to install Gnome Shell in Ubuntu 10.10, now its time to do the same for Unity. There are a couple options to try unity on 10.10. The somewhat [...]

Installing Google Earth is relatively straight forward. Download the Ubuntu/Debian package from Google, then click on the package to install it. Unfortunately when you attempt to run the program you may be hit with the following error. /usr/bin/google-earth: 43: ./googleearth-bin: not found This occurs because Google Earth has a dependency on /lib/ld-lsb.so.3, and unless this [...]

GNOME Shell is a component of GNOME 3.0 which is the next generation of the GNOME Desktop Environment scheduled for release in April 2011. With the release fast approaching you may be eager to give it a try on your current Ubuntu 10.10 installation. There are currently two ways to install GNOME Shell. The easiest [...]

With the new version of VirtualBox (4.0.0) comes a new feature called Extension Packs. Before version 4.0, there were two editions of VirtualBox: a full binary containing all features and an “Open Source Edition” (OSE) with source code. With version 4.0, there is only one version any more, which is open source, and the closed-source [...]

Git is a great version control system which is used everywhere these days. The process of installing git on SUSE is as easy as other distros at moment but is not to difficult if you follow these steps. To my knowledge at this point in time there is no git rpm package for SUSE. There [...]

If you are looking for a great HTPC then you should look no further than Boxee on the Dell Zino HD. For those of you that don’t know, Boxee is a free software program that you install on your computer that allows users to watch internet movies and TV shows, listen to online radio and [...]

Installing the VirtualBox Guest Additions is fairly straightforward process but with Fedora 12 you will run into some problems. Here is the error message you will see when attempting to install Guest Additions. # /media/VBOXADDITIONS_3.1.6_59338/VBoxLinuxAdditions-amd64.run Verifying archive integrity… All good. Uncompressing VirtualBox 3.1.6 Guest Additions for Linux…….. VirtualBox Guest Additions installer Removing installed version of [...]

Whether you work with the GIMP to create graphical content, OpenOffice to write documents, or anything in between, chances are that you will need to supplement the basic installed fonts on your Ubuntu system. There are a couple ways to go about this. If you don’t alrady have a font to install you can use [...]

Installing Boxee turns your computer into an incredible HTPC. These instructions will help you get it up and running on Ubuntu. Update: Boxee has recently made the latest version (9.20) of their software available for Ubuntu 64 and 32-bit. If you are installing this new version simply download the deb package off their website directly [...]