EPEL

EPEL

EPEL - FedoraProject - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL

"Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (or EPEL) is a Fedora Special Interest Group that creates, maintains, and manages a high quality set of additional packages for Enterprise Linux, including, but not limited to, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL),CentOS and Scientific Linux (SL).

EPEL packages are usually based on their Fedora counterparts and will never conflict with or replace packages in the base Enterprise Linux distributions. EPEL uses much of the same infrastructure as Fedora, including buildsystem, bugzilla instance, updates manager, mirror manager and more." [1]

EPEL 5:

• http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/i386/repoview/
• http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/x86_64/repoview/

EPEL 6:

• http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/repoview/
• http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/repoview/

Installation

Install EPEL repo:

# CentOS 5:
# i386: rpm -Uvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm
# x86_64:
rpm -Uvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/x86_64/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm

# CentOS 6:
rpm -Uvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

Example install Python 2.6 and Mercurial from EPEL:

yum -y install python26 mercurial

References:

• Install python 2.6 in CentOS - Stack Overflo - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1465036/install-python-2-6-in-centos
• EPEL - FedoraProject - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL