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
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
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
#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
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Note: change "x86_64" to i386 for 32 bit OS
hope this helps you.
rzm
No comments:
Post a Comment