I am a fan of the REMI Repository. Here are the steps necessary to add, enable and then update your box w/ the latest packages from the REMI Repository.
wget http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm
wget http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-5.rpm
rpm -Uvh remi-release-5*.rpm epel-release-5*.rpm
/bin/rm epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm remi-release-5.rpm
perl -pi -e 's/enabled=0/enabled=1/g' /etc/yum.repos.d/remi.repo
yum update
UPDATED – 2010-08-29: Location Updated for the epel-release file
Hi,
I am getting this error. Has the site url changed? Thanks.
[root@localhost ~]# wget http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm
–2011-01-11 09:09:50– http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm
Resolving download.fedora.redhat.com… 209.132.183.67
Connecting to download.fedora.redhat.com|209.132.183.67|:80… failed: Connection refused.
[root@localhost ~]#
Just a note, this will also enable remi-test repo, which may not be suitable for everyone. Thanks anyway!