How to Enable EPEL Repository on CentOS 6

In this tutorial, we learn how to enable EPEL on CentOS 6.

Introduction  

In this tutorial, we learn how to enable EPEL on CentOS 6.

EPEL stands for Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux. It’s a Fedora Special Interest Group that creates, maintains, and manages a high-quality set of additional packages for Enterprise Linux, including CentOS.

EPEL packages usually based on their Fedora counterpart and will never conflict or replace packages provided by Enterprise Linux itself.

Prerequisites  

• CentOS 6 installation with root privileges via sudo

If you have no sudo configured, you can run the commands below from the root user and remove the sudo command.

Enable EPEL repository on CentOS 6  

First of all let’s import CentOS 6 RPM GPG Key