How to Enable the EPEL repository on CentOS

Posted by linuxize on Feb 24, 2019 12:27 PM EDT
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The EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) repository provides additional software packages that are not included in the standard Red Hat and CentOS repositories.

EPEL repository was created because Fedora contributors wanted to use the packages they maintain on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and its derivatives such as CentOS, Oracle Linux, and Scientific Linux.

Enabling this repository gives you access to popular software packages including Nginx, R, and Python Pip.

In this tutorial, we will show you how to enable the EPEL repository on CentOS.

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