本文来源:http://www.rackspace.com/knowledge_center/article/installing-rhel-epel-repo-on-centos-5x-or-6x
首先要下载软件源的RPM文件
CentOS 5.*
wget http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/x86_64/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm
wget http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-5.rpm
sudo rpm -Uvh remi-release-5*.rpm epel-release-5*.rpm
CentOS 6.*
wget http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
wget http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-6.rpm
sudo rpm -Uvh remi-release-6*.rpm epel-release-6*.rpm
如果sudo无法运行,可以选择su命令下运行
su
rpm -Uvh remi-release-6*.rpm epel-release-6*.rpm
安装成功后,你应该能够在/etc/yum.repos.d目录下看到增加的软件源
$ ls -1 /etc/yum.repos.d/epel* /etc/yum.repos.d/remi.repo
/etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo
/etc/yum.repos.d/epel-testing.repo
/etc/yum.repos.d/remi.repo
此外,还有一些其他的软件源
http://blog.51osos.com/linux/rhel-centos-fedora-epel-remi-rpmforge-rpmfusion/