extra packages for rhel4 and centos5

Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL): RHEL4, Centos5

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL hosts some useful, extra RPMs for RHEL4 and RHEL5 distros:

mercurial, trac, steel back common lisp, rrdtool, clam av, openvpn, deny hosts, rsnaphot, pound, moin, plone, zope.

Update your yum sources (no apt repository it seems as yet) by installing the epel-release RPM (http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/4/i386/repoview/epel-release.html) and yum install them.

RPMForge: http://rpmforge.net/

The RPMForge guys provide stable, common packages which are missing from the main repositories. The easiest way to add their repositories to your sources is by installing their latest RPM: http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/rpmforge-release/ ( v0.3.6 as of this writing). e.g.

rpm -i http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm

Some users of rhel4 based systems may find that they have an older version of apt-get installed. And that will barf on the correct syntax for the source installed by this package. Try converting the line in /etc/apt/sources-list.d/rpmforge.list to something like…

rpm http://apt.sw.be redhat/el4/en/i386 dag