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Yasha Karant writes:
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> Who has used the EPEL repo? Does this repository create conflicts
> (e.g., installing incompatible or very "buggy" RPMs) with RHEL 6 (e.g.,
> SL6)?
>
> Note that I have successfully moved a recent Lab Plot that I built on
> RHEL 5.5 IA-32 (CentOS 5.5) that ran under RHEL 5.6, and runs under
> RHEL6 X86-64 provided I copy all of the needed IA-32 libraries into the
> correct directories. The IA-32 libraries in question do not seem to
> cause any instabilities with X86-64 SL 6.
>
> Yasha Karant
>

Yasha,

EPEL is supposedly the most trusted extra repo for EL as it is endorsed by
Fedora/Redhat.
If you do not want to add yet another repo to your system just install those
2 packages individually.

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