EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux)是基於Fedora的一個項目,爲「紅帽系」的操做系統提供額外的軟件包,適用於RHEL、CentOS和Scientific Linux.spa
CentOS默認自帶CentOS-Base.repo源,但官方源中去除了不少有版權爭議的軟件,並且安裝的軟件也不是最新的穩定版。Fedora自帶的源中也找不到不少多媒體軟件,若是須要安裝,必需先添加其餘源。rest
EPEL,即Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux,是由 Fedora 社區建立維護,爲 RHEL 及衍生髮行版如 CentOS、Scientific Linux 等提供高質量軟件包的項目。EPEL中含有大量的軟件,對官方標準源是一個很好的補充。blog
「EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux ) is a Fedora Special Interest Group that creates, maintains, and manages a high quality set of additional packages for Enterprise Linux, including, but not limited to, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), CentOS and Scientific Linux (SL).」ci
使用很簡單:it
yum install epel-releaseio