pk stuff

While CentOS stability is great, some packages are considerably behind those available in Fedora. EPEL and Dag provide a great selection of backported RPMs.

To install EPEL:

rpm -Uvh https://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-3.noarch.rpm

And Dag:

rpm --import https://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt
wget https://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/i386/RPMS.dag/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm
rpm -K rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm
rpm -i rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm

And Remi:

wget https://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-5.rpm
rpm -Uvh remi-release-5.rpm