Epel is an additional software package for Linux Enterprise Edition. Epel is a high-quality additional software package project created, maintained, and managed by a special interest group for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and its derivative releases (such as centos and scientific Linux.
Epel wiki home: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/zh-cn
Packages provided by epel: http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/repoview/ or http://mirrors.sohu.com/fedora-epel/6/x86_64/
Epel contains a package called epel-release, which contains the GPG key and software source information of the epel source. You can install Yum on your Enterprise Linux release. In addition to the epel-release source, this package also has a source called epel-testing, which contains the latest test software package. The package version is new but is risky to install. please consider it as needed.
Note: Some third-party software sources require epel's epel-Testing source to install dependency components. You must enable source in system settings. (The related configuration file is located at:/etc/yum. Repos. d/epel-testing.repo)
Open the Sohu image site, find the epel-release package, and then install it in centos:
[Root @ centos-server ~] $ Rpm-IVH http://Mirrors.sohu.com/fedora-epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
After the installation is complete, two additional software sources are available in the/etc/yum. Repos. d directory: epel. Repo and epel-testing.repo.