Enable EPEL and IUS repository for CENTOS6

What is EPEL? Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (or EPEL) is a Fedora Special Interest Group that creates, maintains, and manages a high quality set of additional packages for Enterprise Linux Server, including, but not limited to, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), CentOS and Scientific Linux (SL). First step, download repository rpm from website:

wget http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

Install the rpm:

rpm -Uvh epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

What is IUS? The IUS Community Project is an effort to package rpms of the latest stable versions of the most commonly requested software on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS. IUS provides a better way to upgrade PHP/MySQL/Python/Etc on RHEL or CentOS. The project is run by professional Linux Engineers that are primarily focused on RPM Development in the web hosting industry. Download repository rpm from website:

wget http://dl.iuscommunity.org/pub/ius/stable/Redhat/6/x86_64/ius-release-1.0-11.ius.el6.noarch.rpm 

Install the rpm:

rpm -Uvh ius-release-1.0-11.ius.el6.noarch.rpm