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

NOTE
The package dependencies apply to air-gapped Data Fabric installations as well. For an airgapped installation, Data Fabric would require python3-PyMySQL sg3_utils compat-openssl11 and python2-PyMySQL python3-PyMySQL sg3_utils for an EPEL installation.

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