Comments on: How to Install EPEL Repository on RHEL, Rocky & AlmaLinux

By: Jim West

Jim West — Mon, 02 May 2022 01:13:55 +0000

Does the EPEL Repository stay around after the YUM Repository has reached EOL ??

I am tired of depending on YUM and being left hanging after YUM reaches EOL, and then being forced to upgrade just to use Yum. Is EPEL a stable alternative to YUM?

I use my server to solve problems. I’m not into computer systems development.

I like using Centos, but I don’t like the frequency that new versions come out.

Thanks,
Jim

By: Paul Greninger

Paul Greninger — Fri, 10 Jul 2020 19:06:19 +0000

Trouble installing gdl on Centos 7 with epel-release, conflict with Python installed library. I updated Centos 7. Installed epel-release 7. when I run gdl is says the following:

/bin/gdl
/bin/gdl: relocation error: /bin/gdl: symbol _ZNK8wxWindow7IsShownEv, version WXU_3.0 not defined in file libwx_gtk3u_core-3.0.so.0 with link time reference

By: theo

theo — Mon, 02 Mar 2020 11:30:35 +0000

[root@mail mnt]# yum search epel-release

Modular dependency problem:

Problem: conflicting requests
– nothing provides module(perl:5.26) needed by module perl-DBI:1.641:8010020191113222731:16b3ab4d-0.x86_64
=================================== Name Exactly Matched: epel-release
epel-release.noarch : Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux repository configuration
[root@mail mnt]# yum info epel-release
Modular dependency problem:

Problem: conflicting requests
– nothing provides module(perl:5.26) needed by module perl-DBI:1.641:8010020191113222731:16b3ab4d-0.x86_64
Installed Packages
Name : epel-release
Version : 8
Release : 8.el8
Architecture : noarch
Size : 32 k
Source : epel-release-8-8.el8.src.rpm
Repository : @System
From repo : epel
Summary : Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux repository configuration
URL : http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel
License : GPLv2
Description : This package contains the Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) repository
: GPG key as well as configuration for yum.

[root@mail mnt]# yum install epel-release
Error: There are no enabled repositories in “/etc/yum.repos.d”, “/etc/yum/repos.d”, “/etc/distro.repos.d”.
[root@mail mnt]#

By: Ravi Saive

Ravi Saive — Mon, 25 Nov 2019 04:54:06 +0000

In reply to Abdul-Razak Yahaya.

@Abdul,

Just install the EPEL using the following command.

# rpm -Uvh https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm

By: Abdul-Razak Yahaya

Abdul-Razak Yahaya — Wed, 20 Nov 2019 10:30:21 +0000

I’m unable to install the epel file with the wget command, below is the error I get in my struggle to enable EPEL repo on my RHEL 7.4 server.

Even though I have internet access on the box.

--2019-11-19 15:37:19-- (try: 3) http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/x86_64/e/epel-release-7-5.noarch.rpm Connecting to dl.fedoraproject.org (dl.fedoraproject.org)|209.132.181.23|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting a response... Read error (Connection timed out) in headers. Retrying.

Any Troubleshooting tips for the above.