The downloads pages for version 6.x and 5.x of CentOS/RHEL are the following To setup epel on centos, we need to download the epel installation rpm and install it. There are advanced techniques to tackle this like setting up priorities, or selectively installing packages from repositories, but ofcourse these require a lot of effort and so if you are not sure about all this, it is recommended to only use 1 such external repository. Rpmforge and Epel are known to have conflicts. The same package can come from multiple repositories, and some repositories can replace base packages of a system leading to unexpected troubles.
However it should be always kept in mind, that if multiple such third party repositories are added to a system, then it can lead of conflicts. Some of the most popular ones are RpmForge, RpmFusion, EPEL, Remi etc. So in this tutorial I am going show you how to setup the epel repositories on CentOS Note - There are many different 3rd party repositories that provide software packages for RHEL/CentOS systems. The repository is compatible with RHEL and all close derivates like CentOS and Scientific Linux.īy using epel we can easily install many packages (around 10,000) with yum command, that are not already present in the centos repositories.ĮPEL packages are usually based on their Fedora counterparts and will never conflict with or replace packages in the base Enterprise Linux distributions.įurther details about the epel project are available at
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