[ale] Epel repo for CentOS

[Adrya Stembridge]

nux repo is useful:
http://li.nux.ro/repos.html


On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 10:31 AM, Sean Kilpatrick <kilpatms at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
> >
> > Jeffrey C. Lightner
> > Sr. UNIX Administrator
> >
> > DS Services of America, Inc.
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> > E: jlightner at dsservices.com
> >
> >
> >
> > -----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
>
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