Linux is my favourite operating system. I like windows for multimedia activities. But when it comes to work and experiments, I like linux. Linux gives us the flexibility to perform all operations and it is a vast ocean to explore. Most of us might have heard about EPEL. We used to download lot of packages from EPEL.

But did anyone knows what is EPEL ??
EPEL stands for Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux. It is an opensource repository maintained by the community which contains lot of useful software packages for Redhat, CentOS and Scientific Linux. We can find packages for almost everything as per our needs from this repository.

  • EPEL repository is 100% opensource and is free to use.
  • No extra effort is required to install these packages.
  • Version specific packages are available depending upon the OS version. So this will not cause any conflicts with existing packages in the OS.
  • Can be simply installed using yum

By default the epel repository will not be added in the linux. We have to add it explicitly. We have to download the epel repo and add it to the repositories. This can be simply done by installing an rpm. The following steps help you in adding the epel repository to your CentOS/Redhat machine.

RHEL/CentOS 7 64-Bit

## RHEL/CentOS 7 64-Bit ##
# wget http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/x86_64/e/epel-release-7-5.noarch.rpm
# rpm -ivh epel-release-7-5.noarch.rpm

RHEL/CentOS 6 32-Bit

## RHEL/CentOS 6 32-Bit ##
# wget http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
# rpm -ivh epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

RHEL/CentOS 6 64-Bit

## RHEL/CentOS 6 64-Bit ##
# wget http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
# rpm -ivh epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

RHEL/CentOS 5 32-Bit

## RHEL/CentOS 5 32-Bit ##
# wget http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm
# rpm -ivh epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm

RHEL/CentOS 5 64-Bit

## RHEL/CentOS 5 64-Bit ##
# wget http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/x86_64/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm
# rpm -ivh epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm

RHEL/CentOS 4 32-Bit

## RHEL/CentOS 4 32-Bit ##
# wget http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/4/i386/epel-release-4-10.noarch.rpm
# rpm -ivh epel-release-4-10.noarch.rpm

RHEL/CentOS 4 64-Bit

## RHEL/CentOS 4 64-Bit ##
# wget http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/4/x86_64/epel-release-4-10.noarch.rpm
# rpm -ivh epel-release-4-10.noarch.rpm
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