Enable the EPEL repository for Amazon EC2 by Raj Gupta

How do I enable access to the Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) repository to allow installation of packages that are not available in standard repositories?

Install and enable the EPEL rpm package on RHEL 7 and Amazon Linux 2 

[root@ip-172-31-87-43 ~]# sudo yum install -y https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm

Install and enable the EPEL rpm package on RHEL 6

[root@ip-172-31-87-43 ~]# sudo yum install -y https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-6.noarch.rpm

Install and enable the EPEL rpm package on CentOS 7 64-bit, CentOS 6 64-bit, and CentOS 6 32-bit

[root@ip-172-31-87-43 ~]# sudo yum install -y epel-release

Enable the EPEL rpm package on Amazon Linux

The EPEL repository is already installed on the original version of Amazon Linux, but you must enable it. You can enable this repository either by using the yum-config-manager command or by editing the epel.repo file.

Enable the EPEL repository on Amazon Linux by using the yum-config-manager command

[root@ip-172-31-87-43 ~]# sudo yum-config-manager --enable epel

Enable the EPEL repository on Amazon Linux by using the vim editor to update the epel.repo file

[root@ip-172-31-87-43 ~]# vim /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo

change the entry enabled=0 to enabled=1 that is located in the $basearch section of the epel.repo file

Save and exit the vim editor.

To verify that the EPEL repository is enabled, run the following command:

[root@ip-172-31-87-43 ~]# sudo yum repolist

Loaded plugins: amazon-id, rhui-lb, search-disabled-repos

repo id                                                                  repo name                                                                                status

*epel/x86_64                                                             Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 7 - x86_64                                           12,973

rhui-REGION-client-config-server-7/x86_64                                Red Hat Update Infrastructure 2.0 Client Configuration Server 7                               2

rhui-REGION-rhel-server-releases/7Server/x86_64                          Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 (RPMs)                                                 23,713

rhui-REGION-rhel-server-rh-common/7Server/x86_64                         Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 RH Common (RPMs)                                          235

repolist: 36,923