Enabling the EPEL repo<\/h2>\n

Enabling the EPEL repo will differ slightly depending on which OS you are enabling it from. Overall the installation process for EPEL should be pretty straight forward, there are some distros that make it even easier though! At AKLWEB Host the only distributions that this will apply to is CentOS; however we\u2019ll also cover the process for RHEL.<\/p>\n

Pre-flight Check:<\/h6>\n

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• These instructions were created with AKLWEB Host servers in mind.<\/li>\n
• Root level command line access via SSH will be necessary to follow along.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

  Installing EPEL on CentOS via yum<\/h3>\n

  By far CentOS is the easiest distro to install EPEL on. The CentOS distribution includes a repo called\u00a0\u2018CentOS Extras\u2019<\/em>\u00a0by default. Within this repo users can find a EPEL package, so in this case enabling EPEL is as easy as installing any other package.<\/p>\n

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  1. Connect to the server via SSH as the root user; or open a terminal if you\u2019re working locally.<\/li>\n
  2. Install the EPEL repository with the following command:\u00a0sudo yum install epel-release<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n
  3. Confirm your work and refresh the repo list by running:\u00a0sudo\u00a0yum repolist<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

     Essentially once you\u2019re logged in as the root user<\/strong>, just run the following command:<\/p>\n

     sudo yum install epel-release<\/code><\/p>\n

     Once you hit enter Yum will do some work and prompt you with a confirmation dialog. once you confirm the install and hit enter it will complete the install process for you. That\u2019s it, it\u2019s really that simple.<\/p>\n

     If, for whatever reason, your version of CentOS is missing the CentOS Extras repo necessary for this to work you can follow the directions below.<\/p>\n

     Installing EPEL on RHEL\/CentOS\/etc<\/h3>\n

     If you are running a different supported distribution you can install the\u00a0EPEL rep<\/strong>\u00a0with the following method. This method should also\u00a0work on CentOS<\/strong>\u00a0if you\u2019d like to do a manual install. First start by running the following command:<\/p>\n

     cd \/tmp<\/code><\/p>\n

     Then download the rpm file for installation. The file download depends on\u00a0what OS version you<\/strong>\u00a0are using, select from the list bellow:<\/p>\n

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     • RHEL 7\/CentOS 7\/etc:
       \nwget https:\/\/dl.fedoraproject.org\/pub\/epel\/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm<\/code><\/li>\n
     • RHEL 6\/CentOS 6\/etc:
\nwget https:\/\/dl.fedoraproject.org\/pub\/epel\/epel-release-latest-6.noarch.rpm<\/code><\/li>\n
     • RHEL 5\/CentOS 5\/etc:
       \nwget https:\/\/dl.fedoraproject.org\/pub\/epel\/epel-release-latest-5.noarch.rpm<\/code><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

       Once you\u2019ve downloaded the\u00a0EPEL rpm file for your OS version<\/strong>, you can now install the EPEL repository. To install the EPEL rpm run:
       \nyum install .\/epel-release-latest-*.noarch.rpm<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","manualknowledgebasecat":[231],"manual_kb_tag":[333],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.aklwebhost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/manual_kb\/2528"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.aklwebhost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/manual_kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.aklwebhost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/manual_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.aklwebhost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.aklwebhost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/support.aklwebhost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/manual_kb\/2528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2529,"href":"https:\/\/support.aklwebhost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/manual_kb\/2528\/revisions\/2529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.aklwebhost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"manualknowledgebasecat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.aklwebhost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/manualknowledgebasecat?post=2528"},{"taxonomy":"manual_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.aklwebhost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/manual_kb_tag?post=2528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}