How to enable EPEL Yum Repo on CentOS 8/7/6
Abstract: zipios++-devel.i686 0.1.5.9-8.el6 epelzipios++.i686 0.1.5.9-8.el6 epel
The EPEL or 「Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux」 is an online yum repository providing high quality of commonly used software packages. These packages are developed and tested on Fedora, which is available for RHEL.
The EPEL repository is available and used for the following Linux Distributions:
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
- Fedora
- CentOS
- Scientific Linux
- Oracle Linux
Download and install the epel-release package as per your system version and architecture. Basically, they provide noarch packages, which means they are architecture-independent but still EPEL providing different packages to download. So you can download it as per your choice.
Method 1 – Installing EPEL using YumFor the CentOS Linux distro, its available under default yum repositories. You can simply install it using yum package manager tool.
yum install epel-releaseMethod 2 – Installing EPEL using RPM
For some of the Linux distributions epel-release package is not available under default repositories, can download the latest package from the official website on install the.
CentOS 8:
yum install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm dnf config-manager --set-enabled PowerTools
CentOS 7:
yum install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
CentOS 6:
yum install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-6.noarch.rpmUsing EPEL Repository
Now check if your repository is working properly on your system. Execute the following command to list all packages available in epel repository
yum --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=epel list all
You will get a long list of packages
.... zile.i686 2.4.9-1.el6 epel zipios++.i686 0.1.5.9-8.el6 epel zipios++-devel.i686 0.1.5.9-8.el6 epel zlibrary.i686 0.12.10-5.el6 epel zlibrary-devel.i686 0.12.10-5.el6 epel zlibrary-ui-gtk.i686 0.12.10-5.el6 epel zlibrary-ui-qt.i686 0.12.10-5.el6 epel znc.i686 1.2-3.el6 epel znc-devel.i686 1.2-3.el6 epel znc-infobot.i686 1.2-1.el6 epel znc-modperl.i686 1.2-3.el6 epel znc-modtcl.i686 1.2-3.el6 epel zvbi.i686 0.2.33-6.el6 epel zvbi-devel.i686 0.2.33-6.el6 epel zvbi-fonts.noarch 0.2.33-6.el6 epel zziplib.i686 0.13.62-1.el6 epel zziplib-devel.i686 0.13.62-1.el6 epel zziplib-utils.i686 0.13.62-1.el6 epel