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 [...]

Changing the hostname on a RHEL box is fairly straightforward if you perform the following steps. First change the HOSTNAME line in /etc/sysconfig/network Then change the hostname in /etc/hosts From here you can either reboot for the changes to take effect or do the following two steps. Force the system to start using the hostname. [...]

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 [...]