How to install EPEL and REMI Repository on Fedora 26 Server

Fedora Tutorial – Hello everyone, today I am going to show you how to install EPEL repository on Fedora 26 server, and also I will guide you to install REMI repository as well. EPEL stands for Extra Package for Enterprise Linux. As you know, EPEL and REMI repositories provide many packages and applications needed by Fedora. These repository are great compliment to the official Fedora repository. So, installing EPEL and REMI on Fedora 26 server is recommended.

install EPEL repository on Fedora 26

How to install EPEL Repository on Fedora 26

To install EPEL repository on Fedora 26, please execute the following command

rpm -Uvh https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm

Output sample:

[root@fedora ~]# rpm -Uvh https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
Retrieving https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
warning: /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.Q6xmCP: Header V3 RSA/SHA256 Signature, key ID 352c64e5: NOKEY
Preparing...                          ################################# [100%]
Updating / installing...
   1:epel-release-7-10                ################################# [100%]

How to install REMI Repository on Fedora 26

Now, use the following command to install REMI repository on Fedora 26

dnf install https://rpms.remirepo.net/fedora/remi-release-26.rpm

Output sample

[root@fedora ~]# rpm -Uvh https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
Retrieving https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
warning: /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.Q6xmCP: Header V3 RSA/SHA256 Signature, key ID 352c64e5: NOKEY
Preparing...                          ################################# [100%]
Updating / installing...
   1:epel-release-7-10                ################################# [100%]
[root@fedora ~]# dnf install https://rpms.remirepo.net/fedora/remi-release-26.rpm
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 7 - x86_64                              1.7 MB/s |  13 MB     00:07    
Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:09 ago on Tue 22 Aug 2017 08:39:42 AM WIB.
remi-release-26.rpm                                                         9.5 kB/s |  15 kB     00:01    
Dependencies resolved.
============================================================================================================
 Package                   Arch                Version                      Repository                 Size
============================================================================================================
Installing:
 remi-release              noarch              26-2.fc26.remi               @commandline               15 k

Transaction Summary
============================================================================================================
Install  1 Package

Total size: 15 k
Installed size: 8.0 k
Is this ok [y/N]:

Now, we have EPEL and REMI repositories installed on Fedora 26. Thanks for reading this how to install EPEL and REMI Repository on Fedora 26. See you on the next tutorial.

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