Prelude Time was one would have to search around to find Video and Audio codec files to play videos on a personal computer. But, like Mase and Brandy “ I have sat on top of the World” since someone introduced me to VLC.

VLC Media Player 2.2.6 recently released, is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. Before we proceed on how to install VLC on CentOS, RHEL, Fedora, lets take a quick look at its. Jan 25, 2014 - In this article i will show you how to install VLC player 2.1.2 in Fedora 19/20, CentOS 6.4/6.5, Ubuntu 13.04/13.10 and linux Mint 15/16.

From that time till now, that is all I use on MS Windows, Apple OSX, and Linux. Background Googled for tested paths towards installing VLC on CentOS.

The links that came up are: • How can I install latest VLC player in cent os 6.4? The instructions basically states that we should avail the EPEL repository along with the RPMForge repository. Repository – EPEL The EPEL repository contains prerequisite files.

# EPEL6-FAQ # # EPEL6 is an add on repository for RHEL and it's variants. It contains packages that # are not shipped sudo yum localinstall --nogpgcheck # epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm sudo rpm -Uvh Repository – RPMForge The RPMForge repository contains the VLC RPM. We will prepare our system for RPMForge installs by doing the following: • Install the repository GPG Key • Download the rmpg-release package • Verify the downloaded package • Install the package • Review the installed package Based on the instructions available @ CentOs.org – Additional Resources >>Repositories >>RPMForge ( ), here is a quick script that we used. Simple Programming Language For Beginners more.

# Install RPMForge # #Install DAG's GPG key sudo rpm --import #Download the package (x64) sudo wget -O 'rpmforge-release-0.5.3-1.el6.rf.i686.rpm' '#Download the package (x32) sudo wget -O 'rpmforge-release-0.5.3-1.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm' '#Verify the package you have downloaded rpm -K rpmforge-release-0.5.3-1.el6.rf.*.rpm #Install the package sudo rpm -i rpmforge-release-0.5.3-1.el6.rf.*.rpm #Review Package sudo rpm -qa grep -i rpmforge Ensure VLC RPM Package Availability Using “ yum info“, let us make sure that everything is in place for a good install. Sample: sudo yum info vlc Output: Install VLC Install VLC via rpm. Sample: sudo yum install vlc Output: Use VLC Once installed, one can initiate the app from the terminal mode by issuing VLC. Or via the desktop menu – Sounds & Video “VLC Media Player”.

Error I experienced a couple of problems preparing the repositories. I was able to scale them through others well lighted path. I have documented those steps below: Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: rpmfusion-free Tried: sudo yum localinstall –nogpgcheck and sudo yum localinstall –nogpgcheck But, got the same error: Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: rpmfusion-free Solution Guide How to fix rpmfusion-(non)free repo error in CentOS 6.4 The steps are: • Identify the Repository that rpmfusion is using • Remove Fedora RPM Fusion files • Install Prerequisite (EPEL 6) Which Repo is rpmfusion* using? Query active repositories by issuing “ yum repolist enabled” request: Command: yum repolist enabled grep -i rpmfusion Output: We can see that rpmFusion is using the one for Fedora 6.

Remove Fedora Files Remove installed rpmfusion repositories. # EPEL6-FAQ # # EPEL6 is an add on repository for RHEL and it's variants. It contains packages RHEL. # yum local install sudo yum localinstall --nogpgcheck # epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm sudo rpm -Uvh # Install RPMFusion - v6 - free - works on 32/64 bit sudo yum localinstall --nogpgcheck # Install RPMFusion - v6 - nonfree - works on 32/64 bit sudo yum localinstall --nogpgcheck Error: ERROR 22 – “The requested URL returned error: 403 Forbidden” Tried: sudo yum localinstall –nogpgcheck But, got the error:: [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 22 – “The requested URL returned error: 403 Forbidden” Trying other mirror.

Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: CentALT. Please verify its path and try again Validate Problem Review the current contents of the /etc/yum.repos.d/centalt.repo file.

Command: cat /etc/yum.repos.d/cent Serial Idm Startimes. alt.repo Output: Solution Guide Here is the link we will follow to hopefully repair the problem. Repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: mratwork-centalt which states to change from a specific URL to a mirrored one. In essence we are changing the baseurl from centos.alt.ru/repository/centos/6/$basearch/ to mirror.sysadminguide.net/centalt/repository/centos/6/$basearch/.