In http://croome.org/content/running-our-first-centos-5-virtual-machine-ama... we got out new EC2 vm running, now we need to update it with our application stack.

First, run an update against the base repository:

yum -y update


Enable the centosplus repository to get more recent package versions changing "enable=0" to "enable=1" in the centosplus section of /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo.

Install MySQL:

yum --enablerepo=centosplus -y install mysql mysql-devel mysql-server mysql-admin

And Apache/PHP: