What is EPEL repository?

What is EPEL repository?

What is EPEL. EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) is an open-source and free community-based repository project from the Fedora team which provides 100% high-quality add-on software packages for Linux distribution including RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux), CentOS Stream, AlmaLinux, and Rocky Linux.

How do I enable and install EPEL repository on CentOS 7?

Installing EPEL repository on a CentOS Linux and RHEL 7. x

1. Open a shell prompt.
2. Or login to a host called server1 using ssh client.
3. Install epel repository using: yum -y install epel-release.
4. Refresh epel repo by typing: yum repolist.
5. Install packages from epel repo : yum install pkg1.

How do I enable and install EPEL repository?

Installing EPEL on CentOS via yum

1. Connect to the server via SSH as the root user; or open a terminal if you’re working locally.
2. Install the EPEL repository with the following command: sudo yum install epel-release.
3. Confirm your work and refresh the repo list by running: sudo yum repolist.

How do I add an EPEL repo?

Commands to install EPEL repo on a CentOS 8. x

1. Open a shell prompt.
2. Use ssh to log in to an CentOS 8.
3. Log in as root user using the su command/sudo command.
4. Install epel using the following command: sudo yum -y install epel-release.
5. Refresh repo by typing the following command: sudo yum repolist.

Is EPEL safe?

EPEL is reasonably safe and widely used due to its wide selection of useful packages and careful, enterprise grade quality control. It’s virtually required for any EL machine, so much so that I deploy it in all my kickstarts/puppet configs proactively.

How do I know if EPEL is enabled?

To verify that the EPEL repository is enabled run the yum repolist command that will list all available repositories. The command will display the repo ID, name and the number of packages for the enabled repositories. The output should include a line for the EPEL repository. That’s it.

What is EPEL Linux?

Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) is a special interest group (SIG) from the Fedora Project that provides a set of additional packages for RHEL (and CentOS, and others) from the Fedora sources. To get a package into EPEL, it has to be in Fedora first.

What is EPEL modular?

Modules are a tool which allows one to have parallel availability of different package sets. One can set up a system and choose to have php-7.2 OR php-7.4 installed with appropriate sub-modules as needed. These are done via the dnf command which has the needed logic to work out needed dependencies and conflicts.

What is CentOS EPEL?

The full form of EPEL is Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux. It is software package repository for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and CentOS. The EPEL repository is made available by the Fedora team.