INSTALLATION
Download & Install
1. Download CentOS6-x86_64-bin-DVD.iso (64 bits) from NCHC or YZU or ISU 2. Install CentOS6 . . .
	Click ‘Configure Network’ at left bottom
	Select your network device and click ‘Edit’
	Check ‘Connect automatically’
	Install GUI (x-windows): Select ‘Minimal’ from top panel and select ‘Customize now’ at the bottom, and then click ‘Next’ Install Text-based Interface: Select ‘Minimal’ from top panel and click ‘Next’
	Install GUI (x-windows): Select ‘Desktops’ from the left panel and then select ‘Desktop’, ‘Fonts’, and ‘X Window System’ from the right panel (The left figure is for your reference)
3. Reboot your system 4. login as “root” (go to “Applications” and then “Accessories” and select “Terminal”) In the Terminal run the following command Setup Autoupdate echo "0 3 * * * root /usr/bin/yum -y update" >> /etc/crontab
Repositories
EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) x86_64 rpm -ivh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/x86_64/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm i386 rpm -ivh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm Adobe Flash Player (Entertainment) x86_64 rpm –ivh http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-x86_64-1.0-1.noarch.rpm rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux i386 rpm –ivh http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux Adobe Flash Player yum install flash-plugin nspluginwrapper alsa-plugins-pulseaudio libcurl Yum Priorities (Some people think it is useful) yum –y install yum-priorities Setup priorities vi /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo [base] name=..... mirrorlist=..... $baseurl=..... gpgcheck=..... gpgkey=..... priority=1 [addons],[updates],[extras]... priority=1 [centosplus],[contrib]... priority=2 Third party repos such as rpmforge... priority=N (where N is > 10)
Administrative Tools
1. User friendly interface yum –y install wget wget -q https://dl.dropbox.com/u/11550603/download/gnome-terminal.sh -O gnome-terminal chmod 755 gnome-terminal ./gnome-terminal cp gnome-terminal /etc/skel/ echo "./gnome-terminal" >> /etc/skel/.bash_profile 2. Add new user adduser –c ‘[full name]’ [name] passwd [name] 3. Delete user userdel *user* 4. RPM Binary packages (manually) rpm -ivh xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/.../x86_64/epel-release-xxx.rpm RPM Upgrade packages rpm -Uvh xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/.../x86_64/epel-release-xxx.rpm PRM Remove packages rpm –e epel-release 5. SRC.RPM Source code package yum –y install rpm-build rpmbuild –-rebuild rasmol-2.7.5-7.fc18.src.rpm cd rpmbuild cd RPMS cd x86_64 rpm –Uvh rasmol.2.7.5-7.fc18.x86_64.rpm