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Change your directory to /usr/local/src   Head over to cpan.org and download the latest stable release of Perl   Copy the download link and issue the following at shell to start pulling the archive wget You’ll need wget so…

Move to the folder you want the files to eventually reside in, the example works on the premise that the target directory is above the source directory. |_examplefolder |_myfolder Issue the following at shell mv myfolder/* . This command would…

Install the rpmforge repo wget rpm -i rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm yum install unrar -y Once you have the package installed, type in the following command to extract the rar unrar x <filename>.rar   The x tell’s unrar to maintain the original folder…

Edit the following file vi Add a random string into $cfg[‘blowfish_secret’]=    

To install phpMyAdmin issue the following at shell yum install phpmyadmin Restart apache and you’re good to go service httpd restart  

This is how I installed Imagemagick on a vanilla CentOS server Start off by installing the prerequisites yum install php-pear gcc php-devel php-pear Issue the following to verify whether you have Imagemagick available via the current repositories yum list ImageMagick*…

I recently had to upgrade PHP on an old server, here is how I did it. Please note: This will remove all your PHP components and any custom settings you may have done, you’ll have to repeat all that you…

Start of by making sure you have the rpmforge repo installed Install DAG’s GPG key rpm –import 32-bit wget 64-bit wget Install the repo rpm -i rpmforge-release-0.5.3-1.el6.rf.*.rpm Install swftools yum install swftools -y