INSTALL EPEL

1. EPEL is the Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) is a volunteer-based community effort from the Fedora project to create a repository of high-quality add-on packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)



2. you can download it by
> rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-3.noarch.rpm

3. then your reposity will it epel
{{{
[root@localhost yum.repos.d]# pwd
/etc/yum.repos.d
[root@localhost yum.repos.d]# ls
adobe.repo epel.repo sl-debuginfo.repo sl-security.repo
atrpms.repo epel-testing.repo sl-fastbugs.repo sl-srpms.repo
dag.repo sl-contrib.repo sl.repo sl-testing.repo
}}}

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Application:
1. u can download the "ncftp" it is the CPAN the Perl world wide archive of resources
{{{
yum list *ncftp*
yum install
}}}

2. simple use
{{{
ncftp ncftp ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/toolbox/ncbi_tools++/2010/
(u can use the help to look it)
}}}



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Reference:
1. epel intro: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL
2. epel install: http://www.question-defense.com/2010/01/25/install-ncftp-ncftpget-ncftpput-using-yum-on-centos-linux-server
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