Installing VLC on the Aspire One

Bring up a terminal and become root (i.e. "su").

Uninstall the old Media Player (yes, you should do this).

yum remove mplayer\*

Update to the latest Redhat Repository.

yum install fedora-release

Add the Livna repository (where the VLC binaries can be found).

rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-8.rpm

Install VLC.

yum install vlc

Lots of "y"s later, you can now play videos by double clicking.


Also! Accessing files on your Windows network.

First, find out the IP address of the system you want to access (mine is 192.168.0.101).

Create a folder under "/mnt" for the link.

Next become root and mount it.

mount -t cifs //192.168.0.101/Work /mnt/MyTargetFolder

Tada, you can now access your files from "/mnt/MyTargetFolder".

For closure, "umount" removes mounts.