What is EPEL and how to use it on CentOS
In short, EPEL is an extra repository outside of CentOS and Redhats regular repositories.
It’s mostly based on Fedora packages and works for both CentOS, Redhat and Scientific Linux.
It’s extremely simple to use, merely one command.
Pick your correct architecture and version from the EPEL website (for example, http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-5.noarch.rpm) and then type this and you’re done:
yum install --nogpg http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-5.noarch.rpm
