How to install and run latest s3fs on CentOS 5.5

You can install and run s3fs latest version (tested on 1.73) on CentOS 5.5. Please consider this as on update to the s3fs documentation.

1. yum remove fuse fuse* fuse-devel
2. yum install gcc.x86_64 libstdc++-devel.x86_64 gcc-c++.x86_64 curl.x86_64 curlpp.x86_64 curlpp-devel.x86_64 curl-devel.x86_64 libxml2.x86_64 libxml2-devel.x86_64 openssl-devel.x86_64 mailcap.x86_64
3. cd /usr/local/src
4. wget “https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/fuse/fuse-2.X/2.8.4/fuse-2.8.4.tar.gz?r=&ts=1299709935&use_mirror=cdnetworks-us-1″
5. tar -xzvf fuse-2.8.4.tar.gz
6. rm fuse-2.8.4.tar.gz
7. mv fuse-2.8.4 fuse
8. cd fuse/
9. ./configure –prefix=/usr
10. make
11. make install
12. export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/
13. ldconfig
14. modprobe fuse
15. pkg-config –modversion fuse (confirm that 2.8.4 is the version displayed)
16. cd ../
17. wget https://s3fs.googlecode.com/files/s3fs-1.73.tar.gz (get URL for latest version)
18. tar -xzvf s3fs-1.73.tar.gz
19. rm s3fs-1.73.tar.gz
20. mv s3fs-1.73 s3fs
21. cd s3fs
22. ./configure –prefix=/usr
23. make
24. make install

Summary: This updates Fuse to the latest version which allows s3fs (Tool to mount Amazon s3 as a filesystem on Linux) to install on CentOS 5.5.