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Linux Administration Cookbook
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Linux Administration Cookbook

by Adam K. Dean
December 2018
Beginner
826 pages
22h 54m
English
Packt Publishing
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CentOS - Adding the EPEL repository with epel-release

Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) is one of the more popular additional repositories in the CentOS/Red Hat space.

Because of this, it actually has a very easy method for installation, from the given repositories:

$ sudo yum install epel-release -y

Looking in our repo directory, you'll now see two new files:

$ ls -lha /etc/yum.repos.d/epel*-rw-r--r--. 1 root root  951 Oct  2  2017 /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1.1K Oct  2  2017 /etc/yum.repos.d/epel-testing.repo

And yum repolist will show it, too:

$ yum repolistLoaded plugins: fastestmirrorLoading mirror speeds from cached hostfileepel/x86_64/metalink                                                          |  31 kB  00:00:00      * base: mirrors.melbourne.co.uk * epel: anorien.csc.warwick.ac.uk ...
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ISBN: 9781789342529