Its been several months that I have been using Linux on my old home computer. I am using it for surfing the internet, reading emails, listening to online radio and playing 720p mkv.
Below is my installation flow for CentOS 6.3.
- Download and install CentOS 6.3 Desktop
- Update CentOS: yum update
- Add EPEL repo (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL)
- Add RPMForge repo (http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/RPMForge)
- Install additional packages: yum install mplayer smplayer gconf-editor unrar
- Install Google Chrome (http://www.google.com/chrome)
- Install Skype (http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Skype)
- If there is an audio playback problem, install pulseaudio-libs.i686.
- Download wallpapers and setup background xml file
- Install compiz-fusion: yum install compiz-fusion-extras compiz-manager compiz-fusion-extras libcompizconfig ccsm compiz-gnome compiz-fusion-extras-gnome fusion-icon
- Set compiz as window manager:
- Run gconf-editor and set /desktop/gnome/session/required_components/windowmanager to compiz-gtk
- Edit /usr/bin/compiz-gtk, change the compiz arguments to: exec compiz --loose-binding --ignore-desktop-hints gnomecompat ccp $@
- Install Cairo-dock 3.1.x (http://glx-dock.org/)
Problems that I have encountered:
- I have accidentally corrupted my Linux partition because of a typo error in running mkntfs. Be very careful in running commands under root.
- I have to build and install proprietary drivers every time I updated Linux kernel.
- Linux Flash is slow.
- MTP is slow and unstable.
- Linux radeon driver does not support my ATI graphics card and proprietary driver is slow.
--> Running transaction check
ReplyDelete---> Package freeglut.x86_64 0:2.8.1-3.el7 will be installed
---> Package librtmp.x86_64 0:2.3-1.el6.rf will be installed
--> Processing Dependency: libgnutls.so.26(GNUTLS_1_4)(64bit) for package: librtmp-2.3-1.el6.rf.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: libgnutls.so.26()(64bit) for package: librtmp-2.3-1.el6.rf.x86_64
---> Package mpg123.x86_64 0:1.20.1-1.el6.rf will be installed
--> Processing Dependency: libesd.so.0()(64bit) for package: mpg123-1.20.1-1.el6.rf.x86_64
---> Package mplayer.x86_64 0:1.0-0.48.svn20100703.el6.rf will be installed
--> Processing Dependency: libartsc.so.0()(64bit) for package: mplayer-1.0-0.48.svn20100703.el6.rf.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: libopenjpeg.so.2()(64bit) for package: mplayer-1.0-0.48.svn20100703.el6.rf.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: libesd.so.0()(64bit) for package: mplayer-1.0-0.48.svn20100703.el6.rf.x86_64
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Package: mplayer-1.0-0.48.svn20100703.el6.rf.x86_64 (rpmforge)
Requires: libopenjpeg.so.2()(64bit)
Error: Package: mplayer-1.0-0.48.svn20100703.el6.rf.x86_64 (rpmforge)
Requires: libesd.so.0()(64bit)
Error: Package: mplayer-1.0-0.48.svn20100703.el6.rf.x86_64 (rpmforge)
Requires: libartsc.so.0()(64bit)
Error: Package: librtmp-2.3-1.el6.rf.x86_64 (rpmforge)
Requires: libgnutls.so.26(GNUTLS_1_4)(64bit)
Error: Package: mpg123-1.20.1-1.el6.rf.x86_64 (rpmforge)
Requires: libesd.so.0()(64bit)
Error: Package: librtmp-2.3-1.el6.rf.x86_64 (rpmforge)
Requires: libgnutls.so.26()(64bit)
You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
This is the error message that i get after adding the yum repos for 'EPEL' and 'RPMForge'.
i tried to do a symlink for a lib, but looks like it didnt work either! Please help!
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 20 Sep 14 16:14 libgnutls.so.26.0 -> libgnutls.so.28.20.4
i had installed the gnutls (x86_64 separately and installed it)
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 1126864 Jun 24 19:36 libgnutls.so.28.20.4
$ uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 3.10.0-123.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Jun 30 12:09:22 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux