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
