Installing Beryl On A CentOS 5.5 Desktop

Open a terminal (Applications > Accessories > Terminal) and become root by typing:

su

Then we run these two commands to add the new repositories to our existing repositories:

cd /etc/yum.repos.d/
wget

Now we must enable the kbs-CentOS-Testing repository. To do this, we open the file kbsingh-CentOS-Extras.repo and change enabled=0 to enabled=1 in the kbs-CentOS-Testing stanza:

gedit kbsingh-CentOS-Extras.repo

# All new packages are now released to the testing repository first
# and only moved into Stable after a period of time
# Note: The testing repository is disabled by default

[kbs-CentOS-Extras]
name=CentOS.Karan.Org-EL$releasever - Stable
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=
enabled=1
baseurl=

[kbs-CentOS-Testing]
name=CentOS.Karan.Org-EL$releasever - Testing
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=
enabled=1
baseurl=

Then we import the GPG key of our new repository:

rpm --import

Now we can install Beryl with a single command:

yum install beryl

This will install Beryl and all needed dependencies on your system.