How to enable EPEL on CentOS 8
Nov 7 2020 - 2 min read
EPEL means Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux.
EPEL is a volunteer-based community effort from the Fedora project to create a repository of high-quality add-on packages that complement the Fedora-based Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and its compatible spinoffs, such as CentOS.
Check your running operating system:
[moore@servdev ~]$ cat /etc/redhat-release
CentOS Linux release 8.2.2004 (Core)
[moore@servdev ~]$ uname -a
Linux dev0.lan.comp.com 4.18.0-193.19.1.el8_2.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Sep 14 14:37:00 UTC 2020 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
EPEL is available (not available by default in RHEL):
[moore@servdev ~]$ dnf search epel
Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:30 ago on Mon 21 Sep 2020 02:56:53 PM UTC.
======================================================= Name Matched: epel ========================================================
epel-release.noarch : Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux repository configuration
epel-rpm-macros.noarch : Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux RPM macros
Check EPEL information:
[moore@servdev ~]$ dnf info epel-release
CentOS-8 - AppStream 4.0 MB/s | 5.8 MB 00:01
CentOS-8 - Base 11 MB/s | 2.2 MB 00:00
CentOS-8 - Extras 21 kB/s | 8.1 kB 00:00
bintray--ookla-rhel 6.4 kB/s | 1.4 kB 00:00
EPEL YUM repo 5.2 MB/s | 8.0 MB 00:01
Available Packages
Name : epel-release
Version : 8
Release : 8.el8
Architecture : noarch
Size : 22 k
Source : epel-release-8-8.el8.src.rpm
Repository : epel
Summary : Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux repository configuration
URL : http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel
License : GPLv2
Description : This package contains the Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) repository
: GPG key as well as configuration for yum.
Name : epel-release
Version : 8
Release : 8.el8
Architecture : noarch
Size : 23 k
Source : epel-release-8-8.el8.src.rpm
Repository : extras
Summary : Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux repository configuration
URL : http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel
License : GPLv2
Description : This package contains the Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) repository
: GPG key as well as configuration for yum.
Enable EPEL:
[moore@servdev ~]$ sudo dnf install epel-release
Last metadata expiration check: 1:56:39 ago on Mon 21 Sep 2020 01:01:55 PM UTC.
Dependencies resolved.
===================================================================================================================================
Package Architecture Version Repository Size
===================================================================================================================================
Installing:
epel-release noarch 8-8.el8 extras 23 k
Transaction Summary
===================================================================================================================================
Install 1 Package
Total download size: 23 k
Installed size: 32 k
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
epel-release-8-8.el8.noarch.rpm 658 kB/s | 23 kB 00:00
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Total 87 kB/s | 23 kB 00:00
Running transaction check
Transaction check succeeded.
Running transaction test
Transaction test succeeded.
Running transaction
Preparing : 1/1
Installing : epel-release-8-8.el8.noarch 1/1
warning: /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo created as /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo.rpmnew
Running scriptlet: epel-release-8-8.el8.noarch 1/1
Verifying : epel-release-8-8.el8.noarch 1/1
Installed products updated.
Installed:
epel-release-8-8.el8.noarch
Complete!
EPEL repository do not force any new package:
[moore@servdev ~]$ sudo yum upgrade
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 182 kB/s | 132 kB 00:00
Dependencies resolved.
Nothing to do.
Complete!
Repo files are created here:
[moore@servdev ~]$ find /etc/yum.repos.d/ -name '*epel*'
/etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo
/etc/yum.repos.d/epel-modular.repo
/etc/yum.repos.d/epel-playground.repo
/etc/yum.repos.d/epel-testing-modular.repo
/etc/yum.repos.d/epel-testing.repo
/etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo.rpmnew
List of enabled repositories:
[moore@servdev ~]$ sudo dnf repolist
repo id repo name
AppStream CentOS-8 - AppStream
BaseOS CentOS-8 - Base
bintray--ookla-rhel bintray--ookla-rhel
epel EPEL YUM repo
epel-modular Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64
extras CentOS-8 - Extras