Adding the EPEL repository to CentOS 5.x
What is EPEL
EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) is a community effort from the Fedora project to create a repository of high-quality add-on packages that complement the Fedora-based Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and its compatible spinoffs, such as CentOS and Scientific Linux. EPEL packages are usually based on their Fedora counterparts and will never conflict with or replace packages in the base Enterprise Linux distributions.
How to enable it
The easiest way to add the EPEL repository is by installing the corresponding repository package from the Fedora web site. The repository package includes gpg keys for package signing and repository information.
For CentOS 5.x you have to install the following repository package: epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm
rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-3.noarch.rpm
After that you can install any packet from the repository using yum.
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