EPEL CentOS 7

In the next tutorial I will show you how to add the fedora EPEL repository to your CentOS 7 installation.

Applicable to

• Centos 7.x, but also to CentOS 6.x (and probably earlier)

 

Requirements

In order to install CentOS EPEL Repository you need:

• root access
• wget:

yum install wget -y

 

Installation

check here for latest version of epel-release-x-x.noarch.rpm

wget http://mirror.nonstop.co.il/epel/7/x86_64/e/epel-release-7-5.noarch.rpm
rpm -Uvh epel-release-7-5.noarch.rpm
rm epel-release-7-5.noarch.rpm -f

or in short:

rpm -Uvh http://mirror.nonstop.co.il/epel/7/x86_64/e/epel-release-7-5.noarch.rpm

Verify

use:

yum repolist

to check that the repo installed correctly.

That’s it! You’ve added CentOS EPEL repository to your centos installation.

 

How to use?

yum --enablerepo=epel install [package]

for example:

yum --enablerepo=epel install zabbix

Note: The epel configuration file is located under /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo.

 

That’s it