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Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (or EPEL) is a Fedora Special Interest Group that creates, maintains, and manages a high quality set of additional packages for Enterprise Linux, including, but not limited to, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), CentOS and Scientific Linux (SL), Oracle Enterprise Linux(OEL).

Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (or EPEL) is a Fedora Special Interest Group that creates, maintains, and manages a high quality set of additional packages for Enterprise Linux, including, but not limited to, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), CentOS and Scientific Linux (SL), Oracle Enterprise Linux(OEL).

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yum error "Cannot retrieve metalink for repository: epel. Please verify its path and try again" updating ContextBroker

I'm trying to update Orion ContextBroker using the command yum install contextBroker. Unfortunatelly I get the following error: Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, refresh-packagekit, security Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile Error: Cannot…
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What is the difference between two "state" option values, "present" and "installed", available in Ansible's yum module?

I have the following task in my ansible playbook: - name: Install EPEL repo. yum: name: "{{ epel_repo_url }}" state: present register: result until: '"failed" not in result' retries: 5 delay: 10 Another value I can pass to…
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Beanstalkd for CentOs 7

Due to a misconfiguration I've migrated a VPS from CentOs 6 to CentOs 7 for a fresh start. Among other things I had a beanstalkd service installed on CentOs 6. At the time I've followed this tutorial…
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Installing EPEL repository on Centos 7 breaks yum functionality?

so I am trying to setup up a ssh bastion server, but I have problem setting up EPEL in order to install Python3.6. I am using CentOS Linux release 7.4.1708 (Core) So I am trying to install EPEL first by using sudo yum -y install epel-release (I did…
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EPEL repository for ARM7

Trying to setup a banana-pi with CentOS 7 to be used a NAS, I come across many packages I have to compile myself. I wonder if there is a special repo for the armv7 architecture ? %uname -a Linux bananapi 4.2.3-200.el7.armv7hl #1 SMP Wed Nov 25…
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No package certbot available

I'm trying to install certbot on RHEL server. Instructions to enable epel-release # yum install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm then # subscription-manager repos --enable "rhel-*-optional-rpms" --enable…
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Fastest way to install Tesseract on Elastic Beanstalk

I am currently using Tika to extract text from files uploaded to my Rails app running on AWS Elastic Beanstalk (64bit Amazon Linux 2016.03 v2.1.2 running Ruby 2.2). I'd like to index scanned images as well, so I need to install Tesseract. I was able…
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Set dependency for package from EPEL in spec file

I'm writing a spec file for software that depends on php-mcrypt. My target OS is CentOS 6.5 php-mcrypt isn't in the CentOS repositories, but it is in EPEL. Is there a better way to satisfy this dependency on the Requires: line rather than manually…
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How can I install the newest version of R (currently 4.0.0) on CentOS?

Title pretty much says it. I have epel installed and when I try to yum the new version, I get version 3.6.0. I know it's possible to compile it from the source, but CRAN seems to want to steer me away from that (and I'm happy to oblige).
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I attempted to enable the EPEL repo on my Fedora 22 machine and I broke it, now errors are thrown

I made the attempt at enabling EPEL on my Fedora 22 machine by running wget http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/x86_64/e/epel-release-7-5.noarch.rpm Then sudo rpm -ivh epel-release-7-5.noarch.rpm And now when I run dnf repolist I get the…
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Unable to install packages via yum in AWS, [Errno -1] repomd.xml does not match metalink for epel

While install rpms via yum running into the below error in AWS EC2 instances. sudo yum update Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile epel/x86_64/metalink …
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repomd.xml missing for epel-release repo

I've just installed the epel-release repo via this link : http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/x86_64/e/epel-release-7-9.noarch.rpm , in order to install python-pip on my CentOS 7 VM. But after tha when I want to use yum, it gives me this error…
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Enable EPEL with cloud-init via "User Data" (Amazon Linux)

I'm trying to install the p7zip package after launching an Amazon Linux-based EC2 instance in AWS via the "User Data" feature (using cloud-init): #cloud-config repo_update: true repo_upgrade: all packages: - p7zip However since p7zip isn't…
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EPEL's Centos 6 repo does have clang but doesn't have std lib to use it

I have just installed clang (3.4.2) from EPEL's Centos 6 repo (together with dependencies: llvm 3.4.2 and llvm-libs 3.4.2) but I have found out that there is no std lib to support it there. Full list of packages here So when I try to compile c++11…
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CentOS 6.5 R Installation Dependencies

Update: Please note that I did post a different flavor of this on the Unix & Linux SE, but received no helpful responses in the day before re-posting here. The information from that post that is relevant here is that I first added EPEL 7 to the list…
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