FFmpeg is a complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. All you need to do is just install one more repository: http://rpmfusion.org/Configuration wget http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/el/updates/6/i386/rpmfusion-free-release-6-1.noarch.rpm sudo rpm -Uhv rpmfusion-free-release-6-1.noarch.rpm wget http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/el/updates/6/i386/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-6-1.noarch.rpm sudo rpm -Uhv rpmfusion-nonfree-release-6-1.noarch.rpm sudo yum install ffmpeg Done. ffmpeg version 0.10.15 Copyright (c) 2000-2014 the FFmpeg developers built on Aug 30 2014 15:49:19 with gcc 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-3) Obviously there is no fun with FFmpeg if you don’t have anything to convert.

From time to time you have to decompress .rar archives on your Linux. It’s pretty easy. Just download proper RPM package from repoforge repository . In my case it was wget http://pkgs.repoforge.org/unrar/unrar-5.0.3-1.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm sudo rpm -Uvh unrar-5.0.3-1.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm Done. To extract archive just use unrar x yourfile.rar

Quick copy and paste list of commands to get PHP 5.4 on CentOS boxes wget http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm wget http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-6.rpm sudo rpm -Uvh remi-release-6*.rpm epel-release-6*.rpm Enable remi repo sudo nano /etc/yum.repos.d/remi.repo Update sudo yum update sudo yum info php Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, refresh-packagekit, security Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * base: mirror.optus.net * epel: fedora.mirror.serversaustralia.com.au * extras: ftp.swin.edu.au * remi: remi.kazukioishi.net * updates: ftp.swin.edu.au Available Packages Name : php Arch : x86_64 Version : 5.

Just bunch of very useful tools to help us with testing and building REST API. requestb.in – just bin for your API calls. Very easy to capture and test calls from APPS www.runscope.com – older brother, or actually mother of requestb.in – full featured serivce to test APIs