EPEL

CentOS 6.5 ships with kernel 2.6 and it’s a quite old for now(CentOS 7 already comes with 3.10), but compile a kernel on CentOS is a mess and it’s not recommended. But fear no more, guys from Elrepo took care of that for us and made a package, let’s see how we can install it. Enable ELRepo Project repository rpm --import https://www.elrepo.org/RPM-GPG-KEY-elrepo.org rpm -Uvh http://www.elrepo.org/elrepo-release-6-6.el6.elrepo.noarch.rpm Install the kernel yum --enablerepo=elrepo-kernel install kernel-lt Configure grub You also need edit /etc/grub....

Import the key [root@ambush ~]# rpm --import http://ftp.riken.jp/Linux/fedora/epel/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-6 Download the Epel package and install it [root@ambush ~]# wget http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm [root@ambush ~]# rpm -ivh epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm Preparing... ########################################### [100%] 1:epel-release ########################################### [100%] [root@ambush ~]# Now you can install packages from the EPEL repository.