Add EPEL Repository to CentOS

Date: 11-11-2015

EPEL = Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux

Option 1

1. Open a shell prompt.
2. Install epel using the following command:

sudo yum -y install epel-release 

3. Refresh repo by typing the following command: yum repolist

Option 2

cd /tmp 
wget https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm 
sudo yum install epel-release-7.noarch.rpm 
sudo yum repolist 

List All Packages In EPEL Repository

sudo yum --disablerepo="*" --enablerepo="epel" list available 

Or 

sudo yum --disablerepo="" --enablerepo="epel" list available | grep 'package' Or sudo yum --disablerepo="" --enablerepo="epel" list available | less