Timothy Murphy wrote:
Sorry, I should have made myself clearer. Drupal-5 is available on EPEL, so it can just be yum-installed. The question is, what to do after that? Eg is it a good idea to create a user drupal who will own the database one has to create?
No need to create a user Drupal at the OS level.
You need to create a database and a database user/password. The database/user/password go into the settings.php file.
There is a Drupal support list too, which may be more appropriate at some point.