CentOS Repo on RHEL 5.6

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Does anyone know how to setup the CentOS repositories to work under RHEL 5.6? Please be specific if possible.

EPEL is a great repo, see the information for installing it at the EPEL "howtouse" FAQ entry. In short, you would run:

rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm
yum update
yum install git

Note that EPEL does include "git".

I also use Ubuntu, and I would say a CentOS box with EPEL is quite comparable to Ubuntu with Universe for server use.

Possibly you do not have the subchannel with the devel versions enabled. See In RHEL 5, yum cannot find a package (python-devel)