The EPEL repositories for AlmaLinux are missing the NTFS-3g package, are you planning to provide it? I won’t connect an external drive without it.
Thank you Lukáš
That is an EPEL issue. Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) is an initiative within the Fedora Project, and all “Enterprise Linux” distros (e.g. RHEL, AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux, Oracle Linux, etc) can use them.
See Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) :: Fedora Docs
There seems to already be a request in Red Hat Bugzilla for adding ntfs-3g into epel10.
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Thank you very much for the explanation, I will direct my question to Red Hat Bugzilla.
Best regards, Lukáš
Meanwhile you can download from pkgs.org ntfs-3g-libs, ntfs-3g and ntfsprogs packages for EPEL 9 and install it manually. Works just fine.
The CentOS Kmod SIG has a ntfs-3g kmod in their repo. You can see the package here Packages | CentOS Community Build Service. Instructions to use the repo can be found in their docs here Quickstart - CentOS Kmods SIG
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Without checking, this is likely due to NTFS having a proper driver in the kernel these days. As such Fedora might well have dropped the ntfs-3g package as no longer being required, and thus its inclusion in EPEL is now more difficult, as EPEL is populated from rebuilt Fedora packages. I didn’t notice the driver being added in the RHEL10 release notes so that is why you are thinking you “need” the ntfs-3g driver.