What is EPEL?

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EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) is a volunteer-based community effort from the Fedora project to create a repository of high-quality add-on packages that complement the Fedora-based Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and its compatible spinoffs, such as CentOS and Scientific Linux.

As part of the Fedora packaging community, EPEL packages are 100% free/libre open source software (FLOSS).

2014-09-06 09:12:10gstlouis

example: rtorrent is in this EPEL repository.  you need to install the epel-release-6-8.noarch

yum install http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
then you can run the yum install rtorrent

gstlouis
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2014-09-25 08:21:14