Enable EPEL repository in CentOS & RHEL

EPEL stands for ‘Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux‘ , as the name suggest epel provides additional rpm packages for RHEL , CentOS , Scientific Linux (SL) & Oracle Enterprise Linux (OLE) . EPEL is created and maintained by Fedora community and EPEL packages are 100% free/libre open source software (FLOSS).
In this post we will discuss how to enable epel repository in CentOS / RHEL 5.X / 6.X / 7.X

For CentOS 5.X / RHEL 5.X

Open the terminal & become the root user and execute below command :
For 32 bit OS

# rpm -Uvh http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm

For 64 bit OS

# rpm -Uvh http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/x86_64/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm

For CentOS 6.X / RHEL 6.X

Open the terminal execute below command as a root user.
For 32 bit OS

# rpm -Uvh http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

For 64 bit OS

# rpm -Uvh http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

For CentOS 7.X / RHEL 7.X

Open the terminal execute below command as a root user
For 64 bit OS

# rpm -Uvh http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/x86_64/e/epel-release-7-2.noarch.rpm

Note : EPEL repository file is located under ‘/etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo’

List New Repository

[root@localhost ~]# yum repolist 
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * base: mirror.nbrc.ac.in
 * epel: ftp.jaist.ac.jp
 * extras: mirror.nbrc.ac.in
 * updates: mirror.nbrc.ac.in
repo id            repo name                                                 status
base/7/x86_64      CentOS-7 - Base                                           8,465
epel/x86_64        Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 7 - x86_64            6,349
extras/7/x86_64    CentOS-7 - Extras                                         75
updates/7/x86_64   CentOS-7 - Updates                                        1,127
repolist: 16,016

List EPEL Packages :

[root@localhost ~]# yum --disablerepo="*" --enablerepo="epel" list available