Installing EPEL Repo for RHEL/OEL/CentOS 5
The Tip Simply Shows How to Enable the EPEL Repo for CentOS/Red-Hat/Oracle Linux 5.x i386/x86_64 desktop/server.
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (or EPEL) is a Fedora Special Interest Group that creates, maintains, and manages a high quality set of additional packages for Enterprise Linux, including, but not limited to, Red Hat Enterprise based Linux (RHEL), CentOS and Scientific Linux (SL), Red Hat Enterprise based Linux (OEL).

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Open Terminal Window
(Press “Enter” to Execute Commands)In case first see: Terminal QuickStart Guide.
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Download Latest EPEL Release for CentOS 5:
Change to a Writable directory:cd /tmp
For 32bit:
wget https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/i386/
Instead, for 54bit:
wget https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/x86_64/
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Installing EPEL Release for CentOS 5:
sudo su -c "rpm -ivh ./epel-release-latest-latest-5*.rpm"
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