In this How To we are going to add EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) on CentOS / RHEL 6.x. 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).
Video at the end to demonstrate all commands.
1) Installing EPEL Repository
Use following command to install EPEL Repository
cd /usr/src
wget http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-5.noarch.rpm
rpm -ivh epel-release-6-5.noarch.rpm
2) Testing
Use following command to see EPEL Repo get listed.
yum repolist
Plugin “refresh-packagekit” can’t be imported
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
epel/metalink | 6.1 kB 00:00
* base: centos.mirror.lstn.net
* epel: fedora-epel.mirror.lstn.net
* extras: centos.mirror.lstn.net
* updates: mirror.steadfast.net
epel | 4.0 kB 00:00
epel/primary_db | 4.2 MB 00:00
repo id repo name status
adobe-linux-x86_64 Adobe Systems Incorporated 2
base CentOS-6 – Base 6,294
epel Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 6 – x86_64 7,016
extras CentOS-6 – Extras 4
updates CentOS-6 – Updates 466
vz-base vz-base 3
vz-updates vz-updates 0
repolist: 13,785
You can see above (bold line) about EPEL install and its now part of yum repository list. So now you can download any package listed in EPEL repository. For all list you can use following command.
yum list | grep epel | less
If you have any question please comment.
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For 64 bit Centos, wget command should be
wget http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
Hi there!
Can you list me how many repos we can add on the centos 7 x64 without having conflicts within packages?
Im more used to Debian so, how the centos repos work? Do we have do add sections like in Debian (main, contrib non-free)? To gel all the packages we need?
IMan, I wish I could see a tutorial with a Centos 7 x64 install from scratch, with lightdm and xfce 4.10…