OpenSUSE: Maintenance

Published by expire0

Posted on November 30, 2013

Enable services to start at boot

example : sshd

chkconfig -set sshd on

chkconfig **to confirm the server is set to on

Start a service

systemctl start sshd.service

systemctl status sshd.service  *verify service *

Enable copying and pasting via rdesktop

rdesktop -5 -r clipboard:CLIPBOARD   “hostname” -g 1280×768

————————-RPM BUILD ———

Apps needed checkinstall , rpm-build , yasm and gcc

rpm location after build /usr/src/packages/RPMS/x86_64/

./configure

make

make install

checkinstall

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Video/Media

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lame
mmencoder
mpg123
mplayer

one click http://opensuse-community.org/Restricted_formats/

zypper addrepo -r http://packman.inode.at/suse/12.3/packman.repo
zypper install libxine2-codecs k3b-codecs ffmpeg lame gstreamer-0_10-plugins-bad gstreamer-0_10-plugins-ugly gstreamer-0_10-plugins-ugly-orig-addon gstreamer-0_10-plugins-ffmpeg libdvdcss2

Now install the x264 codec:
wget ftp://ftp.videolan.org/pub/videolan/x264/snapshots/x264-snapshot-20080731-2245.tar.bz2
tar xvjf x264-snapshot-20080731-2245.tar.bz2
cd x264-snapshot-20080731-2245
./configure –enable-shared
make && make install
ldconfig
cd ..

best player
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-suse.html

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