install EPEL repository in RHEL

Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL):

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 and Scientific Linux (SL), Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL).

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.

It’s a repository bringing a set of additional packages available at least for RHEL and CentOS .

step for installing EPEL Repository, Here i am installing the EPEL7 repository.

# cd /root

# wget "https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/x86_64/e/epel-release-7-2.noarch.rpm"

# rpm -ivh epel-release-7-2.noarch.rpm

#yum clean all

# yum repolist all