Welcome to the home of the EPEL Special Interest Group.
The goal of EPEL is to make high quality Fedora packages available for RHEL and compatible derivatives.
Getting started
Learn more about getting started using EPEL on the following page:
Getting Started
What is Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (or EPEL)?
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) is an initiative within theFedora Projectto provide high quality additional packages forCentOS Stream andRed Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).
EPEL packages are usually based on their Fedora counterpartsand should not conflict with or replace packages in the base Enterprise Linux distributions.EPEL uses much of the same infrastructure as Fedora,including buildsystem, Bugzilla instance, updates manager, mirror manager and more.
Learn more about EPEL in the following pages:
EPEL FAQ
About EPEL
EPEL Guidelines and Policies
What is EPEL-Next?
EPEL packages are built against RHEL. EPEL Next packages are built against CentOS Stream.
EPEL-Next is not a complete rebuild of all the EPEL packages, but only those packages that need to be rebuilt to install on CentOS Stream. The EPEL-Next repo is meant to be layered on top of the regular EPEL repository.
Learn more about EPEL-Next on the following page:
EPEL Next
What packages and versions are available in EPEL?
Since EPEL is part of the Fedora project, you can search the available packages in theFedora Packages web app.This provides an overview of available versions across various EPEL branches.If you find a package that is not yet available in the EPEL branch you would like it to be,please follow this guide to request it.
Alternately, you can browse the repo files directly:
EPEL 9:x86_64,s390x,ppc64le,aarch64,sources
EPEL 8:x86_64,s390x,ppc64le,aarch64,sources
You can also browse these same directories on any of ourmirrors.
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| Due to major security changes in SSL in the last 10 years, olderreleases may not be able to directly point to these releases. As of2021-01-22, EPEL-5 and 4 systems do not have the newer TLS 1.2 algorithmsthat Internet servers are required to use for security reasons. The bestmethod for working with these is to have a newer system mirror theentire archive and then for your systems to point to that mirror. |
EPEL 7: https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/epel/7/
EPEL 6: https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/epel/6/
EPEL 5: https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/epel/5/
EPEL 4: https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/epel/4/
Can I rely on these packages?
The EPEL project strives to provide packages with both high quality andstability. However, EPEL is maintained by a community of people whogenerally volunteer their time and no commercial support is provided. Itis the nature of such a project that packages will come and go from theEPEL repositories over the course of a single release. In addition, itis possible that occasionally an incompatible update will be releasedsuch that administrator action is required. By policy these areannounced in advance in order to give administrators time to test andprovide suggestions.
It is strongly recommended that if you make use of EPEL, and especially if yourely upon it, that you subscribe to theepel-announcelist. Traffic on this list is kept to a minimum needed to notify administratorsof important updates.
History and background of the project
The EPEL project was born when Fedora maintainers realized that the sameinfrastructure that builds and maintains packages for Fedora would begreat to also maintain add on packages for Enterprise Linux. Much of theearly need was driven by what Fedora infrastructure needed on the RHELmachines that built and maintained Fedora. From there things have grownto a large collection of varied packages. Seeour history and Philosophy page formore information.
How can I contribute?
EPEL is always looking for interested folks to help out. Wealways need package maintainers, QA/testers, bug triagers anddocumentation writers. Please see our Joining EPELpage for more information on how to join EPEL.
Communicating with EPEL
There are many ways to communicate with EPEL and its members:
The epel:fedoraproject.org channel on offers real-timesupport for EPEL users and developers.
The #epel IRC channel onLibera Chat is a secondary chat location, but is not bridged to Matrix.
The epel-develmailing list is for general EPEL discussion.Historic archives are available.
Theepel-announcemailing list is a low volume mailing list for only important announcements.
Theepel-package-announcemailing list is a list that gets information about package updates as theyhappen in the stable repository.
If you find a bug in a EPEL maintained package, please report it tohttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/under the "Fedora EPEL" product.
Infrastructure issues (mirrors, repos, etc.) should be reported toFedora releng.
The EPEL Steering Committee meets on Wednesday every week in theFedora Meeting 1Matrix channel. The time is not tied to U.S. daylight savings time, so it is at18:00 UTC regardless of the time of year. Please check the time on theepel calendar; sometimesit can change or a meeting can be skipped. Feel free to join us! Logs ofpast meetings can be viewed inmeetbot.
The EPEL Steering Committee hasmonthlyoffice hours for the EPEL project.
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