cent-os basics

Today I had someone reach out to me via chat and ask a basic question…

My VPS is based on CentOS 6 but it does not even have wget – how can I install the development tools?

Yum is a great friend to any CentOS system administrator –  I suggest beginning with the following few commands

1.  yum update -y

once complete add

2.  yum install nano screen wget -y

once complete then do

3.  yum groupinstall ‘Base’ -y

4.  yum groupinstall ‘Development Tools’ -y

5.  yum groupinstall ‘Perl Support’ -y

If you wish to know the other groupinstall groups available – simply use this command

yum grouplist