CentOS Yum Add Epel Source method

Redhat Fedora Project has a Epel (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux), Epel is the Fedora Software warehouse Rhel, add it, you can get a lot of support rhel/centos free software packages. For example, the current popular nginx, OpenVPN and so on, can be very convenient to install the update.

Epel (Http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL) is a project built by the Fedora community to provide high-quality software packages for RHEL and derivative distributions such as CentOS, scientific Linux. Loaded with Epel, just like on Fedora, you can install software at will by Yum install Package-name.

Installation Epel is very simple:

The code is as follows:

* RHEL 4 (CentOS 4):

RPM-UVH http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/4/i386/epel-release-4-9.noarch.rpm

* RHEL 5 (CentOS 5):

RPM-UVH http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-3.noarch.rpm

After installation, you can use Yum to install the software, such as Nagios:

The code is as follows:

Yum Install Nagios