To enable the EPEL repository on your system, use the following commands. Most of the other repositories listed in this article are dependent on EPEL. EPEL RepositoryĮPEL ( Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) is a free and open-source, popular, community-based repository project aimed at providing high-quality packages that have been developed, tested, and improved in Fedora and made available for RHEL, CentOS, Scientific Linux, and similar Linux distributions.

Warning: You should always remember the repositories listed below are not provided nor supported by RHEL they may or may not be up to date or behave the way you expect them to – use them at your own risk. In this article, we will review the top 8 YUM/DNF repositories for RHEL-based distributions, which are frequently recommended by the Linux community. To install software packages that are not included in the default base and update repositories, as well as additional repositories, you need to install and enable other third-party repositories on your system. The DNF command (Dandified yum) is the next-generation version of the traditional YUM package manager for RedHat-based systems. GeoIP.x86_64 1.5.1-5.el6 7.0-3.el6 6-8 2.5.8-9.el6 2.3.9-1.el6 5.3.3-3.el6 1.1-6.el6 5.5.6-13.el6 5.5.6-13.el6 5.5.6-13.el6 5.5.6-13.el6 5.5.6-13.el6 5.5.6-13.el6 1:1.9.4-10.el6 5.5.6-13.el6 1.1-6.el6 1.3.3g-4.el6 4.8-15.el6 addition, this method also does not work if the repo that you want to search for does not have any distinctive or unique characteristics, or does not display itself in the listing.YUM (Yellowdog Updater Modified) is an open-source, widely used command-line and graphical-based package management tool for RPM (RedHat Package Manager) based Linux systems, including, but not limited to, Red Hat Enterprise Linux ( RHEL), CentOS, Scientific Linux ( SL), Oracle Linux ( OL), Rocky Linux and AlmaLinux, which is used to install, update, remove or search software packages on a system. For example, command above returns packages from extras repo, which we installed the epel-release package, and from Software Collection repo, which has “epel” string in their release. The downsize of this method is that packages from other repos may also be listed if they have something that matches the string of repo been search.

You can also specify the name of the package to search for instead of repo name. For example, to look for all packages installed by EPEL repo: yum list installed | grep epel

Yum repository list