CentOS-5 Documentation

CentOS-5.5

Release Notes (Online | single page | PDF)
Technical Notes (Online | PDF)

CentOS-5.4

Release Notes (Online |single page | PDF)
Technical Notes (Online | PDF)

CentOS-5.3

Release Notes (Online | PDF)
Release Manifest (Online | PDF)

CentOS-5.2

CentOS-5.1

CentOS-5.0

CentOS Directory Server 8.0

Administrator's Guide (Online | PDF)
Installation Guide (Online | PDF)
Configuration, Command, and File Reference (Online | PDF)
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Burning ISOs

ISO Burning HowTo

Yum Documentation

Managing Software with yum

1. Introduction

1.1. Purpose
1.2. Audience
1.3. Using This Document
1.4. Additional Resources

2. Software Management Concepts

2.1. About Packages
2.2. About Repositories
2.3. About Dependencies
2.4. Understanding Package Names

3. Software Management Tools in CentOS

4. Managing Software with yum

4.1. Installing New Software with yum
4.2. Updating Software with yum
4.3. Removing Software with yum

5. Searching for Packages with yum

5.1. Searching by Package Name and Attributes
5.2. Advanced Searches
5.3. Understanding Matches

6. Updating Your System with yum

6.1. Automatically Updating Your System

7. Using Other Software Repositories

7.1. Adding a Repository as a Package Source
7.2. Manually Authorizing Package Sources
7.3. Understanding Repository Compatibility

8. Maintaining yum

8.1. Disabling or Removing Package Sources
8.2. Clearing the yum Caches

8.3. Using yum Plugins

9. Manually Installing Software

10. Using yum with a Proxy Server

11. Acknowledgements

Index

Release Notes

Note: The below linked release notes are provided {and copyrighted} by Red Hat®, Inc. The CentOS Project redistributes these original works (in their unmodified form) as a reference for CentOS-5. CentOS-5 is built from publicly available, open source SRPMs.

CentOS Directory Server 8.0

Online | PDF CentOS-5 and the CentOS Project are not affiliated with, sponsored by, supported by, or in any way associated with the upstream provider or their products.

Content

CentOS-5 Documentation

CentOS-5.5

CentOS-5.4

CentOS-5.3

CentOS-5.2

CentOS-5.1

CentOS-5.0

CentOS Directory Server 8.0

Burning ISOs

Yum Documentation

Release Notes

CentOS-5.0 Beta

CentOS-5.0

CentOS-5.1

CentOS-5.2

CentOS-5.3

CentOS-5.4

CentOS Directory Server 8.0