How to Enable EPEL Repository in CentOS/RHEL system

What is EPEL Repository ?

EPEL stands for "Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux" which is developed by Fedora community.

Using of EPEL in linux (Centos/RHEL/Fedora/Scientific Linux/Oracal Enterprise Linux) machine to install and manage additional package.

CentOS/RHEL 7 64 Bit

CentOS/RHEL 7 64-Bit

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

#rpm -ivh epel-release-7-5.noarch.rpm

CentOS/RHEL 6 32-64 Bit

CentOS/RHEL 6 32-Bit

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

#rpm -ivh epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

CentOS/RHEL 6 64-Bit

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

 #rpm -ivh epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

CentOS/RHEL 5 32-64 Bit

 CentOS/RHEL 5 32-Bit

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

#rpm -ivh epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm

CentOS/RHEL 64-Bit

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

#rpm -ivh epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm

Verify EPEL Repository whether Enabled or not

[root@shahzad ~]# yum repolist

Install package from EPEL repository

#yum install vsftpd –y

Now, Verify that package is downloading from EPEL repository or not

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