centos5.2 wine install problem

when I tried yum install wine it gave me

[root@localhost ~]# yum install wine
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* base: mirror.files.bigpond.com
* updates: mirror.files.bigpond.com
* addons: mirror.files.bigpond.com
* extras: mirror.files.bigpond.com
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
No package wine available.
Nothing to do

suffered web for long and found this link.
the only thing i needed to do was
rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-2.noarch.rpm
yum install foo
then i was able to find the wine with yum
have a look and enjoy..

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/FAQ#howtouse