Description

EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) is open source and free community based repository project from Fedora team which provides 100% high quality add-on software packages for Linux distribution including RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux), CentOS, and Scientific Linux.

EPEL project is not a part of RHEL/Cent OS but it is designed for major Linux distributions by providing lots of open source packages like networking, sys admin, programming, monitoring and so on.

Most of the EPEL packages are maintained by Fedora repo.

Provides lots of open source packages to install via Yum.

Epel repo is 100% open source and free to use.

It does not provide any core duplicate packages and no compatibility issues.

Enable EPEL Repository in CentOS 7 

[root@vps ~]# wget http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm

[root@vps ~]# rpm -ivh epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm

Verify EPEL Repo 

[root@vps ~]# yum repolist

Output 

How to remove EPEL ? 

[root@vps ~]# yum remove epel-release

Upon apply of command, asks for confirmation

Is this ok [y/N]:

Once we have confirmed EPEL repository will be removed