{"id":3001,"date":"2015-09-28T07:20:27","date_gmt":"2015-09-28T07:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/?p=3001"},"modified":"2021-02-18T05:35:38","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T05:35:38","slug":"how-to-install-and-enable-epel-repo-on-centos-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/how-to-install-and-enable-epel-repo-on-centos-7\/","title":{"rendered":"How to install and enable EPEL repo on CentOS 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">EPEL\u00a0 is an open source and free community based repository project which provides 100% high quality add-on software packages for Linux distribution including RHEL (<span id=\"IL_AD3\" class=\"IL_AD\">Red Hat<\/span> Enterprise Linux), CentOS, and Scientific Linux.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">By adding EPEL repo in your server\u2019s repository source, you\u2019ll be able to install\u00a0lots of open source packages via Yum.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">To install EPEL repo login to your server via SSH and run the following command:<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"command-sh\">\n<pre class=\"lang:default decode:true \">yum -y install epel-release<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Now refresh repo by typing the following command:<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"command-sh\">\n<pre class=\"lang:default decode:true \">yum repolist<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<p>If the above one does not work, try this.\u00a0Download EPEL .rpm file to tmp folder:<\/p>\n<div class=\"cpanel-files\"><\/div>\n<pre class=\"lang:default decode:true \">cd \/tmp\r\nwget https:\/\/dl.fedoraproject.org\/pub\/epel\/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm\r\nls *.rpm<\/pre>\n<div class=\"space1\"><\/div>\n<p>Then run below command to install the EPEL .rpm file:<\/p>\n<div class=\"command-sh\">\n<pre class=\"lang:default decode:true \">yum install epel-release-7.noarch.rpm<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<p>Now to verify:<\/p>\n<div class=\"command-sh\">\n<pre class=\"lang:default decode:true \">yum repolist<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<p>The main command to use with yum is:<\/p>\n<div class=\"command-sh\">\n<pre class=\"lang:default decode:true \">yum --enablerepo=epel [command] [package name]\r\n\r\nFor example:\r\n\r\nyum --enablerepo=epel install htop<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<p>That&#8217;s all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EPEL\u00a0 is an open source and free community based repository project which provides 100% high quality add-on software packages for Linux distribution including RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux), CentOS, and Scientific Linux. 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