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the EPEL Special Interest Group.</p> </div> <div class="paragraph"> <p>The goal of EPEL is to make high quality Fedora packages available for RHEL and compatible derivatives.</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="sect1"> <h2 id="_setting_up_epel"><a class="anchor" href="#_setting_up_epel"></a>Setting up EPEL</h2> <div class="sectionbody"> <div class="paragraph"> <p>Learn more about getting started using EPEL on the <a href="getting-started/" class="xref page">How to use EPEL</a> page. See also <a href="available-packages/" class="xref page">Available packages</a> to see what packages are available for each version.</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="sect1"> <h2 id="what_is_extra_packages_for_enterprise_linux_or_epel"><a class="anchor" href="#what_is_extra_packages_for_enterprise_linux_or_epel"></a>What is Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (or EPEL)?</h2> <div class="sectionbody"> <div class="paragraph"> <p>Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) is an initiative within the <a href="https://fedoraproject.org/">Fedora Project</a> to provide high quality additional packages for <a href="https://centos.org/">CentOS Stream</a> and <a href="https://redhat.com/rhel">Red Hat Enterprise Linux</a> (RHEL).</p> </div> <div class="paragraph"> <p>EPEL packages are usually based on their Fedora counterparts and 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.</p> </div> <div class="paragraph"> <p>Learn more about EPEL in the following pages:</p> </div> <div class="ulist"> <ul> <li> <p><a href="epel-about">About EPEL</a></p> </li> <li> <p><a href="epel-policy">EPEL guidelines and policies</a></p> </li> <li> <p><a href="epel-faq">EPEL FAQ</a></p> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> <div class="sect1"> <h2 id="history_and_background_of_the_project"><a class="anchor" href="#history_and_background_of_the_project"></a>History and background of the project</h2> <div class="sectionbody"> <div class="paragraph"> <p>The EPEL project was born when Fedora maintainers realized that the same infrastructure that builds and maintains packages for Fedora would be great to also maintain add on packages for Enterprise Linux. Much of the early need was driven by what Fedora infrastructure needed on the RHEL machines that built and maintained Fedora. From there things have grown to a large collection of varied packages. 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