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Type : System
Operating System : Redhat,Centos

EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) is one of the most interesting repository made by the fedora community to provide at RHEL and CentOS distribution some package like DRDB module for xen server or php-idn, nagios extension, php extra extension, a lot of new libs, asterisk extension and more ...

INSTALLATION

• Download the latest EPEL repository for I386

wget http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-3.noarch.rpm

• Download the latest EPEL repository for x86_64

wget http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/x86_64/epel-release-5-3.noarch.rpm

• Run the rpm install command

rpm -Uvh epel-release-5*.rpm

TIPS

If you want to change the priority of the repository edit this file :

/etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo

And change this value :

priority=2

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