Installing RecordMyDesktop on CentOS

 Installing RecordMyDesktop on CentOS

   recordMyDesktop is a desktop session recorder for Linux
that attemps to be easy to use, yet also effective at it’s primary task.
As such, the program is separated in two parts; a simple command line tool that performs the basic tasks of capturing and encoding and an interface that exposes the program functionality in a usable way.

Link for Downloading the source code:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/recordmydesktop/files/recordmydesktop/

Steps to install :

step 1 : install the dependencies

yum install gcc make libXext-devel libSM-devel libICE-devel zlib-devel            libXfixes-devel libXdamage-devel libvorbis-devel libtheora-devel                           

 Step 2:


wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/recordmydesktop/recordmydesktop/0.3.8.1/recordmydesktop-0.3.8.1.tar.gz


 Step 3:


         tar xf recordmydesktop-0.3.8.1.tar.gz

        
          cd recordmydesktop-0.3.8.1


         ./configure


          make


          make install


 thats it.. You have done it..


start it by giving the command

         recordmydesktop


for more options how to use and help. type,

         recordmydesktop –help