CentOS

Setup notes

epel

yum install epel-release -y

Once the EPEL repository is installed, you can install AppS by just running the following command:

yum install --enablerepo="epel" apps -y

autofs

yum install autofs
yum install nfs-utils nfs-utils-lib

That will install default settings. By default, autofs will auto mount any known location to /net. Make sure they in your /etc/hosts file.

Chrome

vim: /etc/yum.repos.d/chromium-e16.repo

[chromium-el6] name=CentOS-$releasever - Chromium EL6 baseurl=http://people.centos.org/hughesjr/chromium/6/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 enabled=0 gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-Testing-6 [chromium-el6-Source] name=CentOS-$releasever - Chromium EL6 - Source baseurl=http://people.centos.org/hughesjr/chromium/6/SRPMS/ gpgcheck=1 enabled=0 gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-Testing-6 [chromium-el6-debug] name=CentOS-$releasever - Chromium EL6 - Debug baseurl=http://people.centos.org/hughesjr/chromium/6/debug/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 enabled=0 gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-Testing-6

newer version of git

Install needed packages to compile

yum install curl-devel expat-devel gettext-devel openssl-devel zlib-devel
yum install  gcc perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker

Remove old version:

yum remove git
wget https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-1.8.5.tar.xz 
tar xf git-1.8.5.tar.xz 
cd git-1.8.5
make prefix=/usr/local/git all
make prefix=/usr/local/git install
echo "export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/git/bin" >> /etc/bashrc
source /etc/bashrc

Time sync

yum install ntp
chkconfig ntpd on
ntpdate pool.ntp.org
service ntpd start

If for some reason your time sync is disabled, try updating it via http:

sudo yum install htpdate or wget http://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/dag/redhat/el6/en/x86_64/rpmforge/RPMS/htpdate-1.0.4-1.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm
sudo htpdate -a google.com

latest version of Python

https://danieleriksson.net/2017/02/08/how-to-install-latest-python-on-centos/