Usage

• yum install xz
• Note that this platform (CentOS 5.6) still ships with CPython 2.4, so we install a compiler and build our own python. I went with CPython 3.2, but others should work too. Configure it to go under /usr/local/cpython-3.2 (for 3.2).
• yum install gcc
• Set a proper hostname in /etc/sysconfig/network, then reboot or set it for now with the hostname command.
• It appears that 5.6 does not yet have sshfs, so NFS comes to mind.
• NFS worked fine.

Development notes

• Was unable to boot an install DVD in virtualbox, even for just a mediacheck - until I turned on IOAPIC in virtualbox's settings.
• yum install subversion