Installing linux players on fedora.
This article is about using redhat package manager (RPM) to install Mplayer, xmms player, real player etc… on Fedora and redhat. I hope same techniques can be used for Suse and Mandriva.
For each of the given names of packages below visit www.rpmfind.net or rpmsearch, and copy and paste the package name.
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edit on 19/01/2010
Now it is much easier to install programs using yum and apt-get than from installing from the source. If you have set your repositaries correctly, following should work.
for installing both mplayer and vlc player
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sudo apt-get install gmplayer vlc (for debian based systems)
yum install mplayer-gui vlc (for rpm based systems)
The information below were written two years ago and pretty much deprecated by now. 
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Indentify your architecture (for pentium, dual core, C2D, athlon XP it’s i386 (x86); for 64-bit it’s x86_64. Learn more about RPM’s on my “Managing RPM’s” blog on linux installation category (This post may be pending). For example, you have p4, fedora9 and you want xmms, you choose
xmms-1.2.11-1.20071117cvs.1.fc9.i386.rpm note fc9 tag and i386 (if no tag is there, or noarch is there, you can choose for any architecture/fedora version).Package name with FC9 i386 compitable link as example.
1.Mplayer
mplayer-1.0-0.44.rc2.fc9.i386.rpm
2.Realplayer
http://www.real.com/realcom/R?href=http://forms.real.com/real/player/download.html?f=unix/RealPlayer11GOLD.rpm (for all fedora dist, any arch)
3.Helixplayer
HelixPlayer-1.0.9-2.fc9.i386.rpm
4.xmms player, for this you need
xmms
xmms-1.2.11-1.20071117cvs.1.fc9.i386.rpm
xmms-mp3
xmms-mp3-1.2.10-16.fc7.i386.rpm
continue with xmms-wma, xmms-skins if necessary xmms-libs
5. Gstreamer-ffmpeg
gstreamer-ffmpeg-0.10.5-1.fc9.i386.rpm
for mp3 for gstreamer use fluendo codec (google this to find a downloadable link)
for installing RPM’s, type in command line
su -
passwd:(Enter your pasword here)
rpm -ivh (rpm file) example:
rpm -ivh /home/malshan/HelixPlayer-1.0.9-2.fc9.i386.rpm
if no dependency errors found, now you’ve got program installed. Right clicking on a file on your explorer and saying to open with this program automatically sets that type of file with the program.
enjoy!
If any errors found, please reply.
sudo apt-get install gmplayer (for debian based systems)
yum install mplayer-gui (for rpm based systems)
Mounting NTFS on linux (if not auto mounted)
This article is about linux distribution which support NTFS but not automount them. ex: Ubuntu (<7), fedora (>4) etc. More newer ones will have drives mounted on /mnt or /media
Many people complain about cannot able to access windows NTFS partitions in linux. Here’s some help.
Open your console/command line, and type:
su -
passwd:(enter your passwd here)
this will login you as admin inside commandline. Now type,
fdisk -l
this will show a list of drives (mounted/unmounted) — indentify your windows drives by size (in kB – in Blocks column) and note down the device name under device column. If you have more than one HDD, the fdisk output gives them different letters starting from a,b. ex: primary hard partitions will start from sda, here i have shown only the output for my second hard drive which is sdb).
for example:
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 1305 10482381 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sdb2 1306 16708 123724597+ f W95 Ext’d (LBA)
/dev/sdb3 * 16709 16721 104422+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb4 16722 19929 25768260 8e Linux LVM
/dev/sdb5 1306 9137 62910508+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
note down the /dev/sdb5 in a paper along with the drive name (identified by size), which is a NTFS partition.
now goto /mnt and make a directory
cd /mnt && mkdir (whatever name you call the drive)
ex: mkdir malshan
now we need to open rc.local file, any command written here will be executed at boot
gedit /etc/rc.d/rc.local
if you don’t have gedit type,
kwrite /etc/rc.d/rc.local
in the window, add this line to end (append)
mount (device) (folder you created)
ex: mount /dev/sdb5 /mnt/malshan
will mount the drive to /mnt/malshan, now you can just
cd /mount/malshan && ls to see the contents; after rebooting
(Note that you can type mount /dev/sdb5 /mnt/malshan in command line to mount it now, but that’s temparaly)
follow same procedure for other drives, after mkdir different folders (ex: malshan2). ex:
mount /dev/sdb6 /mnt/malshan2 , add to rc.local.
Note that, mounted drives are considered as normal linux folders and files.
if you need to mount an iso image, you can use
mount -t iso9660 -o loop (imagefile) (mount folder) ex:
mount -t iso9660 -o loop /mnt/storage/fedora9_live.iso /media/fedora
if your linux doesn’t auto run pen drives, (no pop up) check /media folder, where normally CD’s, DVD’s or flash drives are auto mounted.
enjoy!
