Efter en Centos minimal installation ønsker man nok at gøre flg.

# ifup eth0
# vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 
# yum install deltarpm
# yum groupinstall base
# yum update

# ## RHEL/CentOS 6 32-Bit ##
# wget http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
# rpm -ivh epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

## RHEL/CentOS 6 64-Bit ##
# wget http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
# rpm -ivh epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

Hvis man skal kompilerer nogle programmer, kan man gøre flg. for at installere diverse værktøjer:

# yum groupinstall 'Development Tools'

Desktop CentOS:

# yum -y groupinstall "Desktop" "Desktop Platform" "X Window System" "Fonts"
# yum -y groupinstall "Graphical Administration Tools"
# yum -y groupinstall "Internet Browser"
# yum -y groupinstall "General Purpose Desktop"
# yum -y groupinstall "Office Suite and Productivity"
# yum -y groupinstall "Graphics Creation Tools"

Tilføj Chrome til CentOS:

cat >/etc/yum.repos.d/google.repo <<EOT
[google64]
name=Google - x86_64
baseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/rpm/stable/x86_64
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub
EOT
yum install google-chrome-stable

Tilføj Nginx til CentOS:

cat >/etc/yum.repos.d/nginx.repo <<EOT
[nginx]
name=nginx repo
baseurl=http://nginx.org/packages/centos/$releasever/$basearch/
gpgcheck=0
enabled=1
EOT
yum install nginx