[ale] Epel repo for CentOS

[Sean Kilpatrick]

Jeff,
When I installed CentOS the repo list included base, extras, and
updates. I have added rpmforge and epel. The originally installed repos
did not provide a number of desktop functions and applications,
especially for a KDE desktop, which I prefer.

What other repos are available from CentOS that provide non-RHEL stuff
-- especially apps that permit the playback of common video codecs that
appear throughout the web?

Sean

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On Tue, 2014-09-02 at 13:53 +0000, Lightner, Jeff wrote:
> CentOS has its own extended repositories similar to those the EPEL provides.

> The point in the EPEL is to provide things for RHEL that aren't *officially* supported by RedHat.

> CentOS is supposed to be a binary compile of RHEL sources but it does have extended repositories of

> non-RHEL stuff.   I'd expect things in the EPEL to work in CentOS but not necessarily vice-versa

> for things in CentOS' extended repositories.
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Jim Kinney
> Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2014 9:21 AM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!
> Subject: Re: [ale] Epel repo for CentOS
> 
> Ah. Makes more sense now. EPEL is a Fedora project.
> I just Google epel and hit the first link. :-) On Sep 2, 2014 9:02 AM, "Sean Kilpatrick" <kilpatms at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > I also thought sourceforge was dead but it appears to be still alive and
> > kicking.   But I erred when I wrote that I had found what I needed on
> > sourceforge. It actually was on the fedora site.
> >
> > I found the EPEL repo by starting at the wiki site for CentOS.
> > That led me to the fedora project page for EPEL; then to the link for
> > x86_64, and then to the EPEL-release-7.1 dated 28Aug14
> >
> >
> > Sean