Monday 11 November 2013

How to enable EPEL repository in RHEL/Centos6 64bit

EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) is open source repository based on Fedora which provides additional softwares for linux which could be installed using  yum.

Basically this just involves 4 steps
1) Login as root user or (do su  - and make user root)
2) Downloading the rpm package for enabling the repository for yum.
3) Install it via rpm commands.
4) Use yum command to  clean current settings(clears information of all 
    enabled  repo)

You can also check the currently enabled repository list by the command
 "yum repolist "


Command summary
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#su - 
#wget http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
#rpm -ivh epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
#yum clean all
#yum repolist 
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Note: change "x86_64" to i386 for  32 bit OS

hope this helps you.
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