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Playing MP3 in CentOS 5.4 (or RHEL 5)

Among several apps available for playing MP3 in Linux xmms works for me.

I add Dag Wieers rpmforge repository with:

rpm -Uhv http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/i386/rpmforge/RPMS/rpmforge-release-0.5.1-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm

Then:

yum install xmms xmms-skins xmms-mp3

There was a problem in that the doublesize option didn't work correctly but this has been fixed with the latest update (1:1.2.10-14.el5.rf).

To enable mp3 in totem and rhythmbox (and for Sound Juicer CD ripping to mp3) you can do:

yum -y install gstreamer-plugins-bad
yum -y install gstreamer-plugins-ugly

These also come from rpmforge. Voila!

[solved] My microphone does not work on Skype in Xubuntu 9.10 !!

I just solved a problem where my microphone can not work for Skype. I was really sure that there is nothing wrong with my hardware since when I am using Windows XP everything runs well. I tried to find out through googling but got no clue.

I started to troubleshoot the mic by running alsa recorder:

arecord -v -v -Dhw:0,0 -f cd test.wav

Enable GUI Root Login on Fedora Core 11

After struggling for about 1 hour, finally I can log into my GNOME Desktop using root account. Aha!! The problem is on pam module called pam_succeed_if.so. This module is designed to succeed or fail authentication based on characteristics of the account belonging to the user being authenticated. One use is to select whether to load other modules based on this test. This module disallows root login using GUI.

OK here are the steps:

Creating CD or DVD Backup on Linux

Although this is not new but it does no harm for me to keep writing it. Ok, here is the scenario: i have a folder named /backup . I want to burn that folder everyday after midnight and run it automatically or from command line. To do that, we need to create shell script and put it on the crontab file.

Requirements (make sure you have installed these):

• cdrecord
• mkisofs
• dvd+rw-format
• growisofs 

Setup a Subversion Server in Minutes

I just finished configuring my subversion server using svnserve in about 2 minutes. But I believe you may get faster. Assuming you will use authentication for your subversion service, here are the steps:

1. Create Repository

svnadmin create /svnrepo/myproject

2. Configure svnserve.conf

vi /svnrepo/myproject/conf/svnserve.conf

Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: fedora. Please verify its path and try again

Update: This problem has now been resolved by the Fedora Community. But you may still not be able to download the updates properly from the mirrors due to the busy network and rush.

The recently released Fedora 11 Leonidas has some issues with it’s regular update process. Many users are getting a strange error which complains about the inability of the update system to retrieve the repository metadata, namely repomd.xml. You can see the error as attached in this inlet below: