Configure EPEL repo in RHEL, for RPM installation With YUM

Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (or EPEL) is a Fedora Special Interest Group that creates, maintains, and manages a high quality set of additional packages for Enterprise Linux, including, but not limited to, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL),CentOS and Scientific Linux (SL). How do I enable it under CentOS 6 or RHLE 6 server?

If you are running an CentOS6/EL6 version, enter:

#  cd /tmp

#  wget http://mirror-fpt-telecom.fpt.net/fedora/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
#  rpm -ivh epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

If you are running an CentOS5/EL5 version, enter:

#  cd /tmp

#  wget http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm
#  rpm -ivh epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm

Install epel*.rpm file using yum command

You can use the yum command instead of rpm command:
# yum install epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

Now it will automatically create all repo file in to yum directory.

#cd /etc/yum.repos.d

#ls

How do I list all enabled repos?

Type the following commands:

# yum repolist

#yum update







Now You can install any rpm via YUM , which is available in EPEL repo.


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