Enable the EPEL repository on CentOS 8.x, RHEL 8.x, RHEL 9.x, or Oracle Linux 8.x

This section describes how to download and install the EPEL repository.

About this task

See Package Dependencies for RHEL to understand the package dependencies for EPEL installation.

NOTE
The package dependencies apply to air-gapped Data Fabric installations as well.

Procedure

  1. Download the EPEL repository:

    For RHEL 8.x, use the following command:

    wget https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm
    For RHEL 9.x use the following command:
    wget https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-9.noarch.rpm
  2. Install the EPEL repository:

    For RHEL 8.x, use the following command:

    rpm -Uvh epel-release-8*.rpm

    For RHEL 9.x, use the following command:

    rpm -Uvh epel-release-9*.rpm