{"id":1027,"date":"2018-03-16T05:00:36","date_gmt":"2018-03-16T05:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newdelhihosting.co.in\/blog\/?p=1027"},"modified":"2018-03-17T11:24:59","modified_gmt":"2018-03-17T11:24:59","slug":"enable-epel-repository-in-centos-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newdelhihosting.co.in\/blog\/enable-epel-repository-in-centos-7\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Enable EPEL Repository in CentOS 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>EPEL<\/strong> (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) is open source and free community based repository project from Fedora team which provides 100% high quality add-on software packages for Linux distribution including RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux), CentOS, and Scientific Linux.<\/p>\n<p>EPEL project is not a part of RHEL\/Cent OS but it is designed for major Linux distributions by providing lots of open source packages like networking, sys admin, programming, monitoring and so on. Most of the EPEL packages are maintained by Fedora repo.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why to use EPEL repository?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Provides lots of open source packages to install via Yum.<\/li>\n<li>Epel repo is 100% open source and free to use.<\/li>\n<li>It does not provide any core duplicate packages and no compatibility issues.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Enable EPEL Repository in CentOS 7<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<pre>[root@newdelhihosting ~]# wget http:\/\/dl.fedoraproject.org\/pub\/epel\/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm\r\n[root@newdelhihosting ~]#\u00a0rpm -ivh epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Verify EPEL Repo<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<pre>[root@newdelhihosting ~]#\u00a0yum repolist<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Sample Output<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<pre>[root@newdelhihosting ~]# yum repolist\r\n\r\nLoading mirror speeds from cached hostfile\r\n* base: centos.excellmedia.net\r\n* centosplus: centos.excellmedia.net\r\n* epel: epel.mirror.angkasa.id\r\n* extras: centos.excellmedia.net\r\n* updates: centos.excellmedia.net\r\nrepo id\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 repo name\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 status\r\nbase\/7\/x86_64\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 CentOS-7 - Base\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0        \u00a0 \u00a09,566+25\r\ncentosplus\/7\/x86_64\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 CentOS-7 - Plus 71+21 epel\/x86_64\u00a012,423\r\nextras\/7\/x86_64\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 CentOS-7 - Extras\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 436\r\nupdates\/7\/x86_64\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0CentOS-7 - Updates\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 2,314+93\r\nrepolist: 24,810\r\n[root@newdelhihosting ~]#<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) is open source and free community based repository project from Fedora team 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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