How-To: add EPEL repository to Centos 6.x is Easy!

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How-To: add EPEL repository to Centos 6.x is Easy!
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    Applicable to

Centos 6.x

Requirements

root access
        wget:

yum install wget

Installation

check here for latest version of epel-release-x-x.noarch.rpm (if wget return 404):

cd /opt/
    wget http://mirrors.nl.eu.kernel.org/fedora-epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
    rpm -Uvh epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
    rm epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm -f

That’s it! You’ve added EPEL repository to your centos installation.