EPEL project provides add-on packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, 7, 6,

  and 5 releases and compatible derivatives (e.g.,

  3 and 2 are not provided because these releases are at End of Life per

  policy]. Also, over time, Fedora diverges from older RHEL releases, and

  it can become more difficult to maintain packages that must build

  against against the older RHEL versions.

  * EPEL only provides free and open source software unencumbered by

  patents or any legal issues.

  FAQ] on alternate repositories.

  == Packages

  [[where_is_the_software_repository_located]]

  === Where is the software repository located?

  available at

  https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mirrormanager/mirrors/EPEL[mirror list].

  package was added into a later RHEL version and you have not yet

  migrated to the latest RHEL version.

  [[where_can_i_find_help_or_report_issues]]

  === Where can I find help or report issues?

  === Is it possible to get a package only into EPEL and not Fedora?

  Simply go through the review process for Fedora and specify only EL

  branch for Rawhide will always be created. Therefore

  xref:package-maintainers::Package_Retirement_Process.adoc[retire the package] directly

  in Fedora Rawhide to avoid confusion. But note that maintaining packages

  If you encounter a problem where packages from EPEL are incompatible

  with another repository, or lead yum or up2date to bail out during

  dependency resolution, please report a bug to

  other repositories. The EPEL project encourages its maintainers to solve

  such problems together with the maintainers from other repositories in

  order to find a solution that is acceptable for both sides. However,

  * https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-next-release-latest-9.noarch.rpm[epel-next-release-latest-9]

  * https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-next-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm[epel-next-release-latest-8]

  For convenience some distributions include these release packages in their default repositories,

  allowing you to install them by name without the full URL.

  Alternately, you can browse the package set:

  * EPEL 8:

  for aarch64 is no longer supported as Red Hat ended support for this

  architecture).

  method for working with these is to have a newer system mirror the

  entire archive and then for your systems to point to that mirror.

  [[how_can_i_use_these_extra_packages]]

  == How can I use these extra packages?

  * The https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/epel-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/[epel-devel]

  mailing list is for general developer and SIG discussion.

  * The

  https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/epel-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/[epel-announce]