How to Enable EPEL Repository in CentOS and RHEL
Abstract: run the following yum command to enable EPEL repository $ sudo yum install -y epel-release On RHEL 7 System$ sudo dnf repolist // CentOS 8 / RHEL 8
EPEL stands for ‘Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux‘ , as the name suggest epel provides additional rpm packages for RHEL, CentOS, Scientific Linux (SL) & Oracle Enterprise Linux (OLE). EPEL is created and maintained by Fedora community and EPEL packages are 100% free/libre open source software (FLOSS).
In this post we will discuss how to enable epel repository in CentOS / RHEL system.
EPEL Repository on CentOS 7 / RHEL 7On CentOS 7 system, run the following yum command to enable EPEL repository
$ sudo yum install -y epel-release
On RHEL 7 System, run following commands to enable EPEL repository
$ wget https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm $ sudo rpm -Uvh epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpmEPEL Repositroy on CentOS 8 / RHEL 8
On CentOS 8 system, run following dnf command to enable repository
$ sudo dnf install -y epel-release
On RHEL 8 system, execute the beneath commands to enable epel repository.
$ wget https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm $ sudo rpm -Uvh epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm
Note : EPEL repository file is located under ‘/etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo’
List New RepositoryOnce EPEL repository is enabled then run following command to list newly added repo,
$ sudo yum repolist // CentOS 7 / RHEL 7 $ sudo dnf repolist // CentOS 8 / RHEL 8
Sample output
List EPEL PackagesIf you wish to list all packages available in EPEL repository then execute following command,
$ sudo yum --disablerepo="*" --enablerepo="epel" list available
Sample Output
Getting Package InfoIf you want to view package information from epel repository then run beneath command,
$ sudo yum --enablerepo=epel info htop
Installing package from epel repository
Let’s assume we want install htop package on our system from epel repository, run following command.
$ sudo yum --enablerepo=epel install -y htop
That’s all from article, I hope you have better understanding now on how to enable and use epel repository on CentOS and RHEL system.