EPEL Repository 8: Although it's been a while since its release Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, the corresponding version of the EPEL repository (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux or EPEL Repository) was released a few days ago.
The repository contains packages not provided by official software sources, such as extundelete, a utility for recovering deleted files from ext3 / ext4 file systems.
Below we will see how you can add EPEL Repository to RHEL 8 but also to 8 CentOS, when released with the good.
Activating it EPEL Repository (EPEL8) on RHEL 8 / CentOS 8 is very simple:
all you have to do is download and install the configuration package that contains the repository files. Μwe can use the dnf package manager:
sudo dnf install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm
With the dnf command above we gave the package URL (in this case we used the https protocol). We ran the command and received the download and confirmation functions.
If we confirm by typing "y" and pressing enter, the package will be installed. To see where the files are installed, we can run the following command:
sudo rpm -ql epel-release
Once you have EPEL installed and activated, you can see the packages it contains.
Once again, all we have to do is use dnf by providing the repo_id of the repository we want to inspect, "epel" in our case:
sudo dnf repository-packages epel list
