Yasha Karant writes:
> 
> 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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