How To Install EPEL Repo on a CentOS and RHEL 7.x and Oracle Linux

Commands to install EPEL repo 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 using the following command: yum -y install epel-release
4. Refresh repo by typing the following command: yum repolist

 

Method #1: Install Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux repository configuration (recommended)

sudo yum install epel-release
yum install epel-release

 

Method #2: Install the extra EPEL repositories from dl.fedoraproject.org

cd /tmp
wget https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
ls *.rpm

sudo yum install -y epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm

sudo yum repolist

sudo yum --disablerepo="*" --enablerepo="epel" list available