Centos – Which Red Hat Enterprise Linux packages for CentOS

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I want to use a Red Hat Enterprise Linux RPM software package on CentOS 5.6, but I don't know which version of RHEL works with CentOS 5.6.

RHEL 4 = CentOS 4?

RHEL 5 = CentOS 5?

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Best Answer

The version numbers correlate between RHEL and CentOS (as Ben Preston already answered). Moreover, due to RHEL philosophy, the ABI should stay the same across all minor number ( .x) versions, so the package compiled for 5.4 should most likely work for 5.5 and 5.6 as well.

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