Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (or EPEL) is a Fedora Special Interest Group that creates, maintains, and manages a high quality set of additional packages for Enterprise Linux, including, but not limited to, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), CentOS, Scientific Linux (SL), Oracle Linux (OL), AlmaLinux (AL) and Rocky Linux (RL).

EPEL packages are usually based on their Fedora counterparts and will never conflict with or replace packages in the base Enterprise Linux distributions. EPEL uses much of the same infrastructure as Fedora, including buildsystem, Bugzilla instance, updates manager, mirror manager and more.

RHEL 7

$ subscription-manager repos --enable rhel-*-optional-rpms \
                           --enable rhel-*-extras-rpms \
                           --enable rhel-ha-for-rhel-*-server-rpms
$ yum install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm

CentOS 7

$ yum install epel-release

RHEL 8

$ subscription-manager repos --enable codeready-builder-for-rhel-8-$(arch)-rpms
$ dnf install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm

CentOS Linux 8, AlmaLinux 8, Rocky Linux 8

$ dnf config-manager --set-enabled powertools
$ dnf install epel-release

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