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Repos
General Information
Installing extra software via 3rd party software repositories.
Checklist
- Distro(s): Enterprise Linux
EPEL
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux is maintained by the Fedora project.
Official site: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL
EPEL: Via Built in Package
EL 6 and 7
yum install epel-release
EPEL: Direct From Fedora
Install the RPM directly from Fedora.
EL 7
yum install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
EL 6
yum install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-6.noarch.rpm
ELRepo
A community project to create a repository for Enterprise Linux packages. It focuses on hardware related packages to include file system drivers, graphics drivers, network drivers, sound drivers, webcam, and video drivers.
Official Site: http://elrepo.org/tiki/tiki-index.php
ELRepo: Install
Import the GPG key
rpm --import https://www.elrepo.org/RPM-GPG-KEY-elrepo.org
EL7
rpm -Uvh http://www.elrepo.org/elrepo-release-7.0-2.el7.elrepo.noarch.rpm
EL6
rpm -Uvh http://www.elrepo.org/elrepo-release-6-6.el6.elrepo.noarch.rpm
RPM Pbone
Find many different RPMs on: rpm.pbone.net
Oracle Public Repos
If you are supporting Oracle Linux, the official repos are here: http://public-yum.oracle.com/