VLC is in rpmforge. If you install the rpmforge repo:
yum install rpmforge--release
You should be able to install vlc:
yum --enablerepo=rpmforge install vlc
There is also an adobe repository:
yum install adobe-release
then install the flash plugin:
yum install flash-plugin
For virtualbox, you will probably just have to install via their packaged RPM:
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads
they have one specific to EL 6: "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 ("RHEL6") / Oracle
Linux 6 ("OL6")"
As for a paint alternative, there's GIMP available in the SL base repos, just:
yum install gimp.
Apparently you can get chrome running on EL6 by following this tutorial:
http://blog.ask4itsolutions.com/2011/03/20/howto-installing-google-chrome-on-rhel-6-red-hat-enterprise-linux-6-32bit-64bi/
I haven't yet tried that though.
-Chris
On 2011-09-30, at 9:18 AM, lancebaynes87 wrote:
> Using other distribution's repositories is a bad idea, because ex.: Fedora
> doesn't has 6 years support of a given version of the OS.
>
> What is the best-practise for Scientific-Linux?
>
> What are the to-do's after a "Minimal Desktop" install?
>
> So the real Question: How can I install a "fresh" version of these apps on
> Scientific-Linux 6.1/64bit?:
>
> * VLC player (it's not in the default repositories and all I can find is
> an outdated VLC in rpmforge)
> * Chromium/Google Chrome?
> * Flash Player
> * VirtualBox
> * microsoft paint alternative :D
>
>
> http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/21785/to-dos-after-installing-scientific-linux-6-1-for-desktop-purposes/
>
> Or it is advised to use another media player other then VLC? there are many
> AVI/WMV/MP4/FLV/etc. videos with many codecs. VLC has many codecs (built-in?)
> that's why we need it. but fixme if there is a better media player for
> Scientific-Linux.
