Netbook Experience

I wanted to add a better video player to my AA1, to support more formats, and the general opinion is that VLC is one of the best players out there.
However a number of people have issues installing it on the Acer Aspire One.

Acer have released a version through their site but it is missing a number of supported formats, so it’s bets to install the full version.

I found a blog which outlined the entire procedure split across 2 posts, so I thought that I would post the entire procedure here.

My source of info is
http://macles.blogspot.com/2008/11/installing-vlc-09-on-aspire-one-linux.html
and
http://macles.blogspot.com/2008/09/updated-repositories.html

Here is the Procedure:


1. Open a terminal Window. (press Alt & F2, click in the run in terminal box, and the click run)
2. Type sudo yum install fedora-release
3. Press enter.
4. Type wget http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/updates/8/i386/rpmfusion-free-release-8-6.noarch.rpm
5. Press enter.
6. Type sudo rpm -U rpmfusion-free-release-8-6.noarch.rpm
7. Press enter
8. Type sudo yum install vlc mozilla-vlc
9. Press enter

VLC player will now be in the Advanced Menu.

Hope this helps

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