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Install EPEL Repository On CentOS - RHEL 6, 7 & 8
Install EPEL Repository On CentOS - RHEL 6, 7 & 8
Install EPEL Repository On CentOS - RHEL 6, 7 & 8
6, 7 & 8
EPEL repository is part of special groups within the fedora group, it creates & maintains
additional packages for Enterprise Linux, mainly CentOS, RHEL, Scientific Linux, Oracle Linux.
EPEL stands for Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux & provides packages that are not
available with the default repositories.
There are two methods using which we can install the EPEL repository on the Linux system,
CentOS/RHEL 6/7
CentOS/RHEL 8
This command will work most of the times but I have faced an issue with some versions where
this might not work. So if this does not work for you, then you can use the second method.
RHEL/CentOS 6:
RHEL/CentOS 7:
Epel also recommends for RHEL 7, to enable the optional, extras, and HA repositories since
EPEL packages may depend on packages from these repositories, using the following
command,
RHEL/CentOS 8:
# ARCH=$( /bin/arch )
Note:- For CentOS 8, EPEL recommends to also enable the PowerTools repository since EPEL
packages may depend on packages from it, run the following command to enable power tools,
Check repository
Once the EPEL repository has been installed, we can check it by executing the following
command,
RHEL/CentOS 6/7
# yum repolist
RHEL/CentOS 8
We can now install the packages available in the EPEL repository. Please share this tutorial, or
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