EPEL Install

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. 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.

Provides lots of open source packages to install via Yum.

Epel repo is 100% open source and free to use.

It does not provide any core duplicate packages and no compatibility issues.

All epel packages are maintained by Fedora repo.

First, you need to download the file using Wget and then install it using RPM on your system to enable the EPEL repository. Use below links based on your Linux OS versions. (Make sure you must be rootuser).

You need to run the following command to verify that the EPEL repository is enabled. Once you ran the command you will see epel repository.

You need to use YUM command for searching and installing packages. For example we search forZabbix package using epel repo, lets see it is available or not under epel.

Let’s install Zabbix package using epel repo option –enablerepo=epel switch.

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

This way you can install as many as high standard open source packages using EPEL repo.