VLC is in rpmforge. If you install the rpmforge repo:
	
	yum install rpmforge--release

You should be able to install vlc:

	yum --enablerepo=rpmforge install vlc

There is also an adobe repository:
	yum install adobe-release
then install the flash plugin:
	yum install flash-plugin

For virtualbox, you will probably just have to install via their packaged RPM:
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads
they have one specific to EL 6: "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 ("RHEL6") / Oracle Linux 6 ("OL6")"

As for a paint alternative, there's GIMP available in the SL base repos, just:
	yum install gimp.

Apparently you can get chrome running on EL6 by following this tutorial:
http://blog.ask4itsolutions.com/2011/03/20/howto-installing-google-chrome-on-rhel-6-red-hat-enterprise-linux-6-32bit-64bi/

I haven't yet tried that though.

-Chris

On 2011-09-30, at 9:18 AM, lancebaynes87 wrote:

> Using other distribution's repositories is a bad idea, because ex.: Fedora doesn't has 6 years support of a given version of the OS.
> 
> What is the best-practise for Scientific-Linux?
> 
> What are the to-do's after a "Minimal Desktop" install?
> 
> So the real Question: How can I install a "fresh" version of these apps on Scientific-Linux 6.1/64bit?:
> 
>    * VLC player (it's not in the default repositories and all I can find is an outdated VLC in rpmforge)
>    * Chromium/Google Chrome?
>    * Flash Player
>    * VirtualBox
>    * microsoft paint alternative :D
> 
> 
> http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/21785/to-dos-after-installing-scientific-linux-6-1-for-desktop-purposes/
> 
> Or it is advised to use another media player other then VLC? there are many AVI/WMV/MP4/FLV/etc. videos with many codecs. VLC has many codecs (built-in?) that's why we need it. but fixme if there is a better media player for Scientific-Linux.