Solution : Install Rhythmbox and the supporting packages. Issue : MP3 support is not enabled due to licensing on RHE 6. I recently reconstructed my laptop host using RHEL 6.3 x86_64. Things went much more smoothly this time and I have a rather usable desktop environment now ;-) rhn-channel -v -u rhnuser@example.com -a -c rhel-x86_64-workstation-optional-6 -a -c rhel-x86_64-workstation-supplementary-6 # NOTE: you will most likely need to find out which version of the EPEL noarch.rpm is out there. 6.5 will be out of date. rpm -Uvh http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-5.noarch.rpm yum -y install yum-plugin-priorities rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/el/updates/testing/6/x86_64/rpmfusion-free-release-6-0.1.noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/el/updates/testing/6/i386/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-6-0.1.noarch.rpm # MISC (mostly audio-type stuff) yum -y install id3lib mesa-demos mesa-li...
Linux: The whole world made it for you... This blog is a collection of things I come across either at home or at work as a Linux Administrator. I have worked as an Admin working with Solaris, SAN, Backups and Linux at the Enterprise level for over 16 years.