Install Audio/Video codec in Linux

People who use Linux distribution have to face one common problem. That is playing multimedia files in Linux. Most time MP3 and most video codec are not include in Linux distributions.

So you have to download the all necessary codec and install them. The best codec pack for Linux i’ve got is the Gstreamer Codec Pack. This package includes most popular codec. You can download them all from http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/download/. All of them are source packages. After you download, unzip, configure, compile and install them. Here are the command that you need

Unzip : tar –zxvf gstreamer-0.10.30.tar.gz

Configure : ./configure

Compile the package : make

To Install : make install

Installing Windows Application in Linux

Most of Linux user suffering from installing Windows application in Linux. By default Linux do not support .exe files. Some users are use the Wine emulator to install windows applications. But i found better GUI Linux application to install windows application in Linux OS.

It is CrossOver Linux. This applications allow user to install most popular Windows applications in Linux. The latest CrossOver version 9 allow user to install Microsoft office 2007 also. This application support many most popular windows applications. You can find more details about CrossOver by visiting codeweavers.com. Also you can see more videos by visiting Codeweaver web site. You can find licensed application through Torrent site. Just Type CrossOver 9 and search it. This application available in .rpm, .deb, and .sh packages.

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Determine your IP address

As a Linux user how do you determine IP address of your Linux PC in command line ?. Simply issue the command ifconfig -a as below. Here -a is option and ifconfig is the command

[root@fedora]# ifconfig -a

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0E:C7:15:04:A8
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0x1820
...

Issue ifconfig --help or man ifconfig for find out more option