Install EPEL Repo on a CentOS and RHEL 7.x

How to install RHEL EPEL repository on Centos 7.x or RHEL 7.x

The following instuctions assumes that you are running command as root user on a CentOS/RHEL 7.x system and want to use use Fedora Epel repos.

Install the extra EPEL repositories

The command is as follows to download epel release for CentOS and RHEL 7.x using wget command:

wget http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/x86_64/e/epel-release-7-5.noarch.rpm

To install epel-release-7-0.2.noarch.rpm, type:

  sudo yum install epel-release-7-5.noarch.rpm
 

Sample outputs:

Loaded plugins: amazon-id, rhui-lb
Examining epel-release-7-0.2.noarch.rpm: epel-release-7-0.2.noarch
Marking epel-release-7-0.2.noarch.rpm to be installed
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package epel-release.noarch 0:7-0.2 will be installed
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
 
Dependencies Resolved   =========================================================================================== Package             Arch          Version         Repository Size =========================================================================================== Installing:
 epel-release        noarch 7-0.2 /epel-release-7-0.2.noarch 22 k
 
Transaction Summary =========================================================================================== Install 1 Package
 
Total size: 22 k
Installed size: 22 k
Is this ok [y/d/N]: y
Downloading packages:
Running transaction check
Running transaction test
Transaction test succeeded
Running transaction
  Installing : epel-release-7-0.2.noarch 1/1 Verifying  : epel-release-7-0.2.noarch 1/1  
Installed:
  epel-release.noarch 0:7-0.2  
Complete!
 

List your new repos

Once installed you should see epel repo using the following yum repolist command
$ sudo yum repolist
Sample outputs:

Loaded plugins: amazon-id, rhui-lb
repo id                                         repo name                            status
epel/x86_64                                     Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux  4,444
rhui-REGION-client-config-server-7/x86_64       Red Hat Update Infrastructure 2.0 Cl     1
rhui-REGION-rhel-server-releases/7Server/x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 (R 4,457
repolist: 8,902

Search and install package

To list all avialble packages under a repo called epel, enter:
$ sudo yum --disablerepo="*" --enablerepo="epel" list available
OR
$ sudo yum --disablerepo="*" --enablerepo="epel" list available | grep 'package'
OR
$ sudo yum --disablerepo="*" --enablerepo="epel" list available | less
Sample outputs:

Fig. 01: List all available packages under a EPEL Repo on a CentOS/RHEL/Fedora Linux

Example: Search and install htop package from epel repo on a CentOS/RHEL 7.x

The commands are as follows:

## search it ## sudo yum search htop
  ## get more info, if found ## sudo yum info htop
  ## install it ## sudo yum install htop
 

And, there you have it, a larger number of packages to install from EPEL repo on a CentOS and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) version 7.x.