CentOS is an Enterprise-class Linux Distribution derived from sources freely provided to the public by a prominent North American Enterprise Linux vendor. CentOS conforms fully with the upstream vendors redistribution policy and aims to be 100% binary compatible.
YUM
The Yellow dog Updater, Modified (YUM) is a free software/open source command line package management utility for RPM-compatible Linux operating systems.
Installation of software
Openssh
yum isntall openssh-server
Apache
yum install httpd
http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/5.1/Deployment_Guide/ch-httpd.html
MySQL
yum install mysql-server mysql
java
http://www.java.com/en/download/help/5000010500.xml#rpm
- (or google), this will install a .rmp.bin, (self extractig, run it to show the rpm).
- rpm -ivh --replacepkgs jdk-1_5_0_15-linux-i586.rpm
- this should install java to usr/java/jdk1.5.0_15/
- in ~/.bashrc add
export JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/jdk1.5.0_15/bin/
export PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME