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Enable EPEL Repository On CentOS 8 / RHEL 8

Run the following command to enable EPEL repo.  You need to install EPEL repository configuration rpm.

For CentOS 8

Run the following command in CentOS 8 to enable EPEL repository.

yum install -y epel-release

For RHEL 8

Run the following command in RHEL 8 to enable EPEL by installing EPEL repo configuration rpm.

yum install -y https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm

Meanwhile, you might need to enable Code ready builder repository on RHEL 8.

subscription-manager repos --enable "codeready-builder-for-rhel-8-*-rpms"

To list out the available EPEL repository, run the following command

yum repolist

Run the following command to list available packages on EPEL repository.

yum list available --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=epel

How To Install Packages from EPEL Repository

Run the following command to install a package from EPEL repository.

yum install xrdp

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