Install EPEL repo on CentOS 7 and RHEL 7

Install EPEL repo on CentOS 7 and RHEL 7

September 7, 2014 by sharad chhetri Leave a Comment

In this post we will learn how to install EPEL repo on CentOS 7 and RHEL 7. On our previous post of “How to install EPEL repo in CentOS/Scientific Linux/Red Hat” , we have already written about EPEL repo.

Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (or EPEL) is a Fedora Special Interest Group that creates, maintains, and manages a high quality set of additional packages for Enterprise Linux, including, but not limited to, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), CentOS and Scientific Linux (SL), Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL). (Reference : EPEL)

Install EPEL repo on CentOS 7 / RHEL 7

Method 1 : By directly using yum command
On CentOS 7, we have found without downloading the epel-release RPM package(as we used to do on previous O.S releases), we can install it by using yum command.

yum install epel-release

See below given reference from our system.

[root@localhost ~]# yum install epel-release
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * base: centos.excellmedia.net
 * extras: centos.excellmedia.net
 * updates: centos.excellmedia.net
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package epel-release.noarch 0:7-2 will be installed
--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved

=================================================================================================================================================
 Package                                Arch                             Version                          Repository                        Size
=================================================================================================================================================
Installing:
 epel-release                           noarch                           7-2                              extras                            13 k

Transaction Summary
=================================================================================================================================================
Install  1 Package

Total download size: 13 k
Installed size: 22 k
Is this ok [y/d/N]: y
Downloading packages:
epel-release-7-2.noarch.rpm                                                                                               |  13 kB  00:00:05     
Running transaction check
Running transaction test
Transaction test succeeded
Running transaction
  Installing : epel-release-7-2.noarch                                                                                                       1/1 
  Verifying  : epel-release-7-2.noarch                                                                                                       1/1 

Installed:
  epel-release.noarch 0:7-2                                                                                                                      

Complete!
[root@localhost ~]#

Method 2: Download epel-release rpm package then install
Visit the link of EPEL repo and find the package name called epel-release-x-x.noarch.rpm (here x-x is version number)
Download the epel-release-x-x.noarch.rpm package from epel repo url and install with the help of rpm command.

EPEL repo URL for 7 version(Enterprise Linux version) : http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/

For x86_64 Operating System architecture:

yum install wget
wget -r --no-parent -A 'epel-release-*.rpm' http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/x86_64/e/ 
rpm -Uvh dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/x86_64/e/epel-release-*.rpm

Method 3: Directly installing from HTTP by using rpm command

By directly using rpm command with http URL address(for x86_64),you can also install epel-release package. Make sure, to get the correct HTTP address from EPEL’s URL

rpm -ivh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/x86_64/e/epel-release-7-2.noarch.rpm

File Created after epel installation

After installation of epel rpm package. The two files will be created.

1. /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo
2. /etc/yum.repos.d/epel-testing.repo