[ale] Epel repo for CentOS

[Jim Kinney]

Rpmfusion has the multimedia stuff that can't or won't be distributed by US
based companies. Between it and epel, centos can play anything. Oh. Livna
has rpm for libdvddecss which is required for commercial DVD movie
playback.
On Sep 2, 2014 10:33 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
> >
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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
>
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