The Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 has been released a couple of days before. In this tutorial, let us see how to enable EPEL repository on RHEL 7.
How to install EPEL for Centos 7
[[email protected] ~]# cat /etc/centos-release CentOS Linux release 7 (Broken)
Download EPEL and install using yum:
yum install http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/x86_64/e/epel-release-7-5.noarch.rpm
Or,
yum install epel-release
Sample output:
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror epel-release-7-0.2.noarch.rpm                           | 13 kB    00:00    Examining /var/tmp/yum-root-adCP8h/epel-release-7-0.2.noarch.rpm: epel-release-7-0.2.noarch Marking /var/tmp/yum-root-adCP8h/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!
Check if EPEL repo Installed:
[[email protected] ~]# yum update
[[email protected] ~]# yum repolist Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile  * epel: nl.mirror.eurid.eu repo id                                                                                          repo name                                                                                                                           status epel/x86_64                                                                                      Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 7 - x86_64                                                                                      4,572 repo                                                                                             Updates PRE Release                                                                                                                 8,465 repolist: 13,037 [[email protected] ~]#
Install packages:
Example: Thunderbird.
[[email protected] ~]# yum install thunderbird Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile  * epel: be.mirror.eurid.eu Resolving Dependencies --> Running transaction check ---> Package thunderbird.x86_64 0:24.5.0-2.el7 will be installed --> Finished Dependency Resolution Dependencies Resolved =============================================================================================================================================================================================================================================  Package                                                    Arch                                                  Version                                                      Repository                                           Size ============================================================================================================================================================================================================================================= Installing:  thunderbird                                                x86_64                                                24.5.0-2.el7                                                 epel                                                 45 M Transaction Summary ============================================================================================================================================================================================================================================= Install 1 Package Total download size: 45 M Installed size: 86 M Is this ok [y/d/N]:
Done.
