How To Enable EPEL Repository in RHEL / CentOS 6/5/4

Hello all, first article in the Open Source Tutorial on "How To Enable EPEL Repository in RHEL / CentOS 6/5/4". Previously I will explain a little about what the repository. Repository is a collection of software packages or applications that are collected on CD media, DVD, hard drive or the internet. So its function is, used to install software packages or applications that are available there.

At the time of installation will require a software package that provides a repository. I addressed this tutorial for users of Linux Operating System RHEL / CentOS 6-5-4. EPEL is a repository that provides additional packages. If the EPEL repository enabled then the user can install additional packages using the yum command.

EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) is an open source project and free community-based repository of Fedora team which maintains several packages that are not part of the standard Red Hat Enterprise Linux (CentOS). The project is designed to provide a major Linux distribution with a lot of open source packages.

How To Enable EPEL Repository in RHEL/CentOS 6/5/4 ?

## RHEL/CentOS 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

## RHEL/CentOS 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

## RHEL/CentOS 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

## RHEL/CentOS 5 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

## RHEL/CentOS 4 32-Bit ##
# wget http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/4/i386/epel-release-4-10.noarch.rpm
# rpm -ivh epel-release-4-10.noarch.rpm

## RHEL/CentOS 4 64-Bit ##
# wget http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/4/x86_64/epel-release-4-10.noarch.rpm
# rpm -ivh epel-release-4-10.noarch.rpm

EPEL require verification to ensure that the EPEL repository enabled with the following:
# yum repolist

EPEL Repository is now ready to be used to find and install packages.
How to find and install the package you can use the following command. Example package name: zabbix
# yum -- enablerepo=epel info [package name]
# yum -- enablerepo=epel install [package name]