Read also: install and enable rpmforge repository in rhel/centos 7/6/5/4. what is epel. epel (extra packages for enterprise linux) is open source and free community based repository project from fedora team which provides 100% high quality add-on software packages for linux distribution including rhel (red hat enterprise linux), centos, and scientific linux.. How to install the latest version of epel repo on centos 7. we can install a wide variety of softwares and packages from the centos main repository. but some important packages (such as php 7, phpmyadmin, htop and many more) are not available in the centos base repository.. For centos 7/rhel 7, click on the link that says “epel-release-latest-7”. for centos 6, grab “epel-release-latest-6”. step 3: launch the file manager on your centos/rhel workstation and navigate to the “downloads” folder..
In this tutorial i am going to describe simple steps to install the latest apache (httpd) version on your centos 7 system. by default centos 7 has few predefined repositories for installing packages, but unfortunately a lot of packages are out of date there.. The centos extras repository includes a package to install epel, and is enabled by default. to install the epel release package, run the following command: sudo yum install epel-release. The epel repository (extra packages for enterprise linux) is an open source and free community based repository project from fedora team, which provides 100% high quality add-on software packages for linux distributions.. the following article describes how to install and enable the epel repository on centos-7/6, how to verify the epel installation and how to remove it, if needed..
