What is installed on Epel and CentOS Epel
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Rhel and his derivative distributions such as CentOS, Scientific Linux in order to stabilize, the official RPM repository provided RPM package is often very lag, of course, this is understandable, after all, this is the server version, security and stability is the focus, The official RPM repository provided by the RPM package is not rich enough, many times need to compile themselves that too hard, and epel just can solve both aspects of the problem.
What is Epel?
The full name of Epel is called Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux. Epel is a project built by the Fedora community to deliver high-quality software packages for RHEL and derivative distributions such as CentOS, scientific Linux, and more. After the Epel is loaded, it is equivalent to adding a third-party source.
If you know rpmfusion.org, it is appropriate to compare rpmfusion, rpmfusion mainly for the desktop distribution to provide a large number of RPM packages, and Epel for the server version provides a large number of RPM packages, and most of the RPM package in the official It is not found in the repository.
Another feature is that most RPM packages are newer than the official repository RPM package, such as the Php,rhel I installed on CentOS in the previous days for stability 5.1.6 version, I remember this is the first half of last year's version, and PHP The latest version has reached 5.3.2, if the phpMyAdmin is installed on the basis of php5.1.6, it will prompt PHP version is too low, this time, the newer PHP rpm provided in Epel can be handy.
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One, what is Epel
EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) from Fedora Project is right for you if you want to get RHEL's high-quality, high-performance, high-reliability, and easy-to-use (key to free) package update functionality. EPEL (Http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL) is a project built by the Fedora community to deliver high-quality software packages for RHEL and derivative distributions such as CentOS, scientific Linux, and more.
Second, the use of experience
1, do not have to change the original Yum source, after installation will produce new repo
2,epel will have a lot of source address, if one down, will go to another under
HTTP://MIRROR.XFES.RU/FEDORA-EPEL/6/X86_64/IBUS-TABLE-CHINESE-SCJ-1.3.4-1.EL6.NOARCH.RPM: [Errno] Pycurl ERROR 6 - ""
Trying other mirror.
HTTP://MIRRORS.USTC.EDU.CN/FEDORA/EPEL/6/X86_64/IBUS-TABLE-CHINESE-SCJ-1.3.4-1.EL6.NOARCH.RPM: [Errno] Pycurl ERROR 6-""
Trying other mirror.
HTTP://REPO.BOUN.EDU.TR/EPEL/6/X86_64/IBUS-TABLE-CHINESE-SCJ-1.3.4-1.EL6.NOARCH.RPM: [Errno] Pycurl ERROR 6-"" KJs
3, if the download package is not complete at the time of update, it will not be installed. In that case, the dependency can take care.
Three, install EPEL,CENTOS6 Select 6, 5 on select 5
32-bit System selection:
RPM-IVH http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
RPM-IVH http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm
64-bit System selection:
RPM-IVH http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
RPM-IVH http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/x86_64/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm
Import Key:
RPM--import/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/rpm-gpg-key-epel-6
RPM--import/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/rpm-gpg-key-epel-5
If you use newer software, you can use the Epel-test.repo file.
Don't forget to install yum install Yum-priorities
[email protected] yum.repos.d]# ls |grep epel
Epel.repo
Epel-testing.repo
What is installed on Epel and CentOS Epel (turn)