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 [...]

Strangely enough there is no way to directly extract the contents of an .rpm package using the rpm (RPM Package Manager) tool. This feature can come in handy for example if you need to access a single file in a package but you don’t want to install it on your system. Fortunately there is a [...]

RPM stands for Red Hat Package Manager. There are a variety of distributions besides Red Hat that use RPM to manage packages including Fedora, Mandriva, SUSE, CentOS, and Yellow Dog Linux among others. RPM uses a database to keep track of what packages have been installed on the system and where they are located. This [...]