![]() You should receive the following output, or something similar to it: base | 3.6 kB 00:00:00 You should be able to find the EPEL repository in the list. ![]() # ġ:epel-release-7-11 # Ĭheck the newly installed repository. The output will appear as shown below: Retrieving To install the EPEL rpm, do so with the following command: rpm -Uvh ![]() This includes Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), CentOS, Scientific Linux (SL), and Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL). We can enable the EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) repository on CentOS 7 / RHEL 7, maintained by a special Fedora Special Interest Group that creates, maintains, and manages high quality additional packages for enterprise Linux versions. Install the yum-utils package using the following command: yum install yum-utils Once you are logged in to the server, run the following commands to make sure that all installed packages are up to date: yum clean all Update the OS Packages and Install the yum-utils Package: Make sure to replace “ IP_Address” and “ Port_number” with your server’s IP address and SSH port. ![]() Log in to your CentOS 7 VPS via SSH as the root user, or as an account with sudo privileges: ssh IP_Address -p Port_number In that case, we can simply add new repositories to further expand the catalogue of packages available to us. The official CentOS 7 repository has a huge list of packages and it covers almost all bases in terms of software for servers, but sometimes we need some additional packages which are not available in the official repositories. This tutorial explains how to set up and use Yum repositories on a CentOS 7 VPS. ![]()
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