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Download the RPM file of EPEL Repo.

centos 6 32bit

wget http://mirror.premi.st/epel//6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

centos 7 64bit 

wget http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/x86_64/e/epel-release-7-2.noarch.rpm

Step-2 Install the downloaded RPM

centos 6 32bit

rpm -ivUh epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

centos 7 64bit 

rpm -ivUh epel-release-7-2.noarch.rpm

Step-3 Enable EPEL Repository.

vi /etc/yum.repos.d/remi.repo

Change Enabled 0 to 1

[epel]
name=Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 7 - $basearch
#baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/$basearch
mirrorlist=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=epel-7&arch=$basearch
failovermethod=priority
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-7

Change Enabled 0 to 1
[epel]
name=Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 7 - $basearch
#baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/$basearch
mirrorlist=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=epel-7&arch=$basearch
failovermethod=priority
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-7

Save & Exit

:wq

Step-4 Update yum list

yum list

RHEL/CentOS 7 64 Bit
## RHEL/CentOS 7 64-Bit ##
# wget http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/x86_64/e/epel-release-7-2.noarch.rpm
# rpm -ivh epel-release-7-2.noarch.rpm
RHEL/CentOS 6 32-64 Bit
## RHEL/CentOS 6 32-Bit ##
# wget http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
# rpm -ivh epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

## RHEL/CentOS 6 64-Bit ##
# wget http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
# rpm -ivh epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
RHEL/CentOS 5 32-64 Bit
## RHEL/CentOS 5 32-Bit ##
# wget http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm
# rpm -ivh epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm

## RHEL/CentOS 5 64-Bit ##
# wget http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/x86_64/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm
# rpm -ivh epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm
RHEL/CentOS 4 32-64 Bit
## RHEL/CentOS 4 32-Bit ##
# wget http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/4/i386/epel-release-4-10.noarch.rpm
# rpm -ivh epel-release-4-10.noarch.rpm

## RHEL/CentOS 4 64-Bit ##
# wget http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/4/x86_64/epel-release-4-10.noarch.rpm
# rpm -ivh epel-release-4-10.noarch.rpm
How Do I Verify EPEL Repo?
You need to run the following command to verify that the EPEL repository is enabled. Once you ran the command you will see epel repository.
# yum repolist
Sample Output
Loaded plugins: downloadonly, fastestmirror, priorities
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * base: centos.aol.in
 * epel: ftp.cuhk.edu.hk
 * extras: centos.aol.in
 * rpmforge: be.mirror.eurid.eu
 * updates: centos.aol.in
Reducing CentOS-5 Testing to included packages only
Finished
1469 packages excluded due to repository priority protections
repo id                           repo name                                                      status
base                              CentOS-5 - Base                                               2,718+7
epel Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 5 - i386 4,320+1,408
extras                            CentOS-5 - Extras                                              229+53
rpmforge                          Red Hat Enterprise 5 - RPMforge.net - dag                      11,251
repolist: 19,075
How Do I Use EPEL Repo?
You need to use YUM command for searching and installing packages. For example we search for Zabbix package using epel repo, lets see it is available or not under epel.
# yum --enablerepo=epel info zabbix
Sample Output
Available Packages
Name       : zabbix
Arch       : i386
Version    : 1.4.7
Release    : 1.el5
Size       : 1.7 M
Repo : epel
Summary    : Open-source monitoring solution for your IT infrastructure
URL        : http://www.zabbix.com/
License    : GPL
Description: ZABBIX is software that monitors numerous parameters of a network.
Let’s install Zabbix package using epel repo option –enablerepo=epel switch.
# yum --enablerepo=epel install zabbix


vi /etc/yum.repos.d/playonlinux.repo
[playonlinux]
name=PlayOnLinux Official repository
baseurl=http://rpm.playonlinux.com/fedora/yum/base
enable=1
gpgcheck=0
gpgkey=http://rpm.playonlinux.com/public.gpg

yum install playonlinux

yum install nc