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1. Add Dag RPM Repository for yum because that has many useful packages.

root@ns ~]#wget http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt
--00:03:28-- http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt
Resolving dag.wieers.com... 217.22.63.77
Connecting to dag.wieers.com|217.22.63.77|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 1672 (1.6K) [text/plain]
Saving to: `RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt'

100%[=======================================>] 1,672 --.-K/s in 0s

00:03:28 (114 MB/s) - `RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt' saved [1672/1672]
[root@ns ~]#
[root@ns ~]#rpm --import RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt
[root@ns ~]#rm -f RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt
[root@ns ~]#vi /etc/yum.repos.d/dag.repo

// create the file with following content

[dag]
name=Dag RPM Repository for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
baseurl=http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/i386/dag/
gpgcheck=1
enabled=0


// When you use dag repository, Input yum command like below.

[root@ns ~]#yum --enablerepo=dag install [package name]


2. Update your system with 'yum' command. However, before doing it, Install 'yum-fastestmirror' that looks for fast server and download packages from there automatically when yum command is used.

root@ns ~]#yum -y install yum-fastestmirror
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
base 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
updates 100% |=========================|951 B 00:00
addons 100% |=========================|951 B 00:00
extras 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 798 kB 01:27
base: ######################################### 2334/2334
Added 2334 new packages, deleted 0 old in 9.34 seconds
primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 489 kB 00:01
updates: ######################################### 222/222
Added 222 new packages, deleted 0 old in 1.00 seconds
primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 157 B 00:01
Added 0 new packages, deleted 0 old in 0.00 seconds
primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 4.2 kB 00:00
extras: ######################################### 16/16
Added 16 new packages, deleted 0 old in 0.04 seconds
Parsing package install arguments
Resolving Dependencies
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Downloading header for yum-fastestmirror to pack into transaction set.
yum-fastestmirror-1.0.3-1 100% |=====================| 4.9 kB 00:00
---> Package yum-fastestmirror.noarch 0:1.0.3-1.el5.centos set to be updated
--> Running transaction check

Dependencies Resolved
================================================== =======
Package Arch
Version
Repository
Size
================================================== =======
Installing:
yum-fastestmirror noarch
1.0.3-1.el5.centos
extras
11 k

Transaction Summary
================================================== ======
Install 1 Package(s)

Update 0 Package(s)

Remove 0 Package(s)

Total download size: 11 k
Downloading Packages:
(1/1): yum-fastestmirror- 100% |=======================| 11 kB 00:00
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
Installing: yum-fastestmirror ######################### [1/1]
Installed: yum-fastestmirror.noarch 0:1.0.3-1.el5.centos
Complete!

[root@ns ~]#yum -y update