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We received a CentOS virtual server from OIT. This is the list of packages that we installed on that server and how we configured them, kept here for backup purposes.

The CentOS package manager is 'yum'.

sudo yum install emacs gcc-c++ httpd mysql-server php svn

Package Configuration

This section contains the details of how each of these packages were configured. If a package isn't listed here, the default configuration was used.

MySQL-server

sudo /sbin/chkconfig --levels 235 sqld on start MySQL server on boot
sudo /usr/bin/mysql_secure_installation configure MySQL Server, pick root password, answer yes to all questions
sudo service sqld start start Apache now

HTTPD

sudo /sbin/chkconfig --levels 235 httpd on start Apache on boot
sudo service httpd start start Apache now