Installing MPlayer on Centos 7

Today's post will describe how to install MPlayer from ATRPMS on Centos 7 machine. And yes, RPM dependency hell included.

Poor man's implementation of rdesktop configuration

In my current job I have to connect to various windows boxes with rdesktop. It is really annoying to pass all options and parameters on command line. I would prefer some kind of configuration for storing connection information for servers. Something like ~/.rdesktoprc. Poor man's implementation of resktop config will be discussed in this post.

Pidgin on Centos 7 - quick and dirty way

I would like to install pidgin on my Centos 7 machine. Unfortunatelly there are no native rpm packages available. This post will describe how to install pidgin with Fedora 19 rpms.

Install GNOME 3 on top of minimal Centos 7 installation

I was trying to install pidgin on Centos 7 virtual machine. Unfortunatelly it was only minimal server installation. In this post I will describe how to install GNOME 3 to already installed machine.

NIC teaming on Centos 7

I've heard a lot about link aggregation, teaming or bonding but I've never tried it. Until now. In this post I will demonstrate how to setup NIC teaming on CentOS 7 virtual host.

Install CentOS 7 with kickstart over proxy

In the previous post, I've installed CentOS 7 with kickstart and pxeboot. Unfortunatelly I was doing this in work and of course I'm behind proxy server. It is not as easy as I might think.

Install virtual Centos 7 with pxe and kickstart on real Centos 7 machine

I was wondering how pxe works and how to use it. In today's post I will look at it a little closer. First goal is to boot Centos 7 installation over pxe. Second goal is to perform unattended system installation with kickstart.

Rdesktop on CentOS 7

I tried to install rdesktop rpm. But I didn't manage to find rpm for centos 7. Only rpm I could find was one from repoforge (http://pkgs.repoforge.org/rdesktop/). Unfortunatelly installation failed on missing dependency: