Editing Centos Repos (section)

== Community Approved Repositories ==
These repositories are frequently recommended by the community, are usually well maintained and provide a substantial number of additional packages to CentOS. They are still not associated with CentOS but are independent. The above warnings about updates and priorities should still be heeded.

'''Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL)''' - (See http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL) provides rebuilds of Fedora packages for EL6 and EL7. Packages should not replace base, although there have been issues around point releases in the past. You can install EPEL by running yum --enablerepo=extras install epel-release. The epel-release package is included in the CentOS Extras repository that is enabled by default. Support available on Freenode in #epel, on mailing lists, and its issue tracker. If you are willing to help test EPEL updates before they are pushed to stable, you can enable the epel-testing repository on your development/testing servers. Enabling epel-testing on production systems is not a good idea.

'''EPEL Playground''' - (See https://hackmd.io/@ssmoogen/B1p2QM-eS) is an additional set of channels for EPEL-8 called playground. It is meant to be sort of like Fedora Rawhide so that packagers can work on versions of software which are too fast moving or will have large API changes from what they are putting in the regular channel. Consumers should be aware that packages in EPEL8-playground are there without any Service Level Expectations. You may want to only cherry pick packages from there as needed, although many of the packages from EPEL-Playground end being promoted to EPEL proper.

'''The Community Enterprise Linux Repository (ELRepo)''' - (See http://elrepo.org/) focuses on kmod driver packages to enhance hardware support in EL6, EL7, and EL8 (including display, filesystem, hwmon, network, and storage drivers). Newer kernels are also available. Follow the ELRepo Home Page to install the elrepo-release package and import the GPG key. Please see the site for additional details. Support available on Freenode in #elrepo, on mailing lists for ELRepo users and ELRepo development and its issue tracker.

'''LinuxTECH.NET Repositories''' - (see http://pkgrepo.linuxtech.net/el6/ ) provides Audio / Video related packages with an emphasis on wide support of codecs and as many optional features enabled as possible in all packages. This repo is for CentOS 6 only. May replace base packages if the "backports" repo is enabled. A repo config is available at: http://pkgrepo.linuxtech.net/el6/release/linuxtech.repo . As of May 2nd 2018 when last checked, the main repo had no packages that had been updated in 2016 or 2017 and only two packages from the testing repo where updated after 2015 so care should be taken with this one as you may be using packages with known security vulnerabilities. Do not attempt to use this repo on CentOS 7, it will not work.

'''nux-dextop''' - (see http://li.nux.ro/repos.html) provides desktop and multimedia oriented packages for EL6 and 7. It contains a lot of graphical programs such as Ardour, but also text based apps like Cone. Requires EPEL and should not overwrite base. There is no nux-dextop repo for CentOS 8 and you should not attempt to use the CentOS 7 version on CentOS 8. If you need multimedia packages on CentOS 8 then start by looking at rpmfusion instead. Existing nux-dextop users may wish to review this thread and consider migrating to rpmfusion https://forums.nux.ro/index.php?t=msg&goto=4173

'''IUS Community Repo''' - (See https://ius.io/ - http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-docs/2009-November/003730.html ) provides the "latest upstream versions of PHP, Python, MySQL". It is sponsored by internal work at Rackspace (but officially unsupported). See their Client Usage Guide to install the ius-release package to configure the repo. See their FAQ which frankly discusses pros and cons. There is also a relatively unbiased comparison of the use of IUS vs SCL here

'''agr-free''' - (see http://rpm.agresearch.co.nz/) provides bioinformatics software for EL6 distributions, x86_64 architecture only. It is managed by AgResearch, New Zealand and contains a large selection of bioinformatics packages & dependencies, as used by scientists at AgResearch. It is designed to be used in combination with the EPEL repository. Full details can be found on the home page. Again, this is not for use on CentOS 7.

'''GhettoForge''' - (see http://GhettoForge.org/) provides packages not in other third party repositories or newer versions of packages for EL7 and 6. Packages that overwrite base should only be in the [gf-plus] repository. Please see the usage section of the GhettoForge wiki for information on how to maintain sanity when using the gf-plus packages. Join #ghettoforge on freenode IRC for assistance

'''RPMfusion Repository''' - (See http://rpmfusion.org/) provides "software that the Fedora Project or Red Hat doesn't want to ship" for EL6 and 7. This repo used to replace base packages but when checked in early 2019 did not do so for CentOS 7 any more. Mailing list for RPMfusion users.

'''The SerNet Samba Repository''' - (See http://www.sernet.de/en/samba/) German site with updated samba packages for Centos 7 and 6, along with numerous other packages. Some users have reported success with these packages but caution is advised. Be aware that only samba versions up to 4.2 are free, more recent versions require an annual subscription to access.

'''Trinity Desktop Environment (TDE)''' - (see http://www.TrinityDesktop.org/about.php ) provides EL5, 6, and 7 packages for a KDE 3.5 style desktop environment. EL5, 6, and 7 yum repositories are available. They have their own support resources to which any Trinity questions should be directed.

'''Remi Repository''' - (See http://rpms.remirepo.net/) Remi Collet maintains a large collection of RPMS, including latest versions of PHP etc. He's also got an FAQ at http://blog.remirepo.net/pages/English-FAQ . Note that this is a collection of repos, and using the -safe series will ensure that nothing from the base CentOS Linux distro is overwritten or replaced. However, be aware that this repo does not play nicely with other third party repos - for example, Remi's packages contain Obsoletes: lines for packages from both IUS and Webtatic repos and thus will automatically replace them with the .remi version. This may not be the desired behaviour and you should be careful with enabling this repo for that reason.

'''ZFS On Linux''' - (See http://www.zfsonlinux.org/) The ZFS on Linux project is an implementation of OpenZFS designed to work in a Linux environment. Though highly sophisticated and popular this filesystem receives no testing or support by RedHat/CentOS, as with all other 3rd party repos use at your own risk.

'''Linux Forensics Tools Repository''' - LiFTeR - (See https://forensics.cert.org/) The CERT Linux Forensics Tools Repository provides many useful packages for cyber forensics acquisition and analysis practitioners. It also includes many of the useful packages that were provided in the past by the now obsolete RPMForge and RepoForge repositories.

'''End Point Package Repository''' - (see https://packages.endpoint.com/) The packages available in these repositories may override packages provided by your chosen distribution. As usual, the packages are provided without any warranty. Feel free to contact End Point Corporation if you need help.