How To Install EPEL Repo on a CentOS and RHEL 7.x

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Originally published at: https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/installing-rhel-epel-repo-on-centos-redhat-7-x/

How do I install the extra repositories such as Fedora EPEL repo on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux server version 7.x or CentOS Linux server version 7.x?

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Hi,

Need your help and suggestion on patching centos to 7.7.
As of now server is running with centos 7.6 but when i try check for latest updates. its only listing two packages. Please help on it to update 7.7 patch level.

---------------------------------[root@localhost tmp]# yum check-update
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, priorities
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
http://ccmaster01.map.mandiant.com/repo/epel/7/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] curl#7 - “Failed connect to ccmaster01.map.mandiant.com:80; No route to host”

atop.x86_64 2.4.0-4.el7 epel
libsodium.x86_64 1.0.18-1.el7 epel
python2-crypto.x86_64 2.6.1-16.el7 epel
python2-msgpack.x86_64 0.5.6-5.el7 epel
python2-psutil.x86_64 2.2.1-5.el7 epel
python2-typing.noarch 3.5.2.2-4.el7 epel
Obsoleting Packages
python2-redis.noarch 2.10.6-1.el7 epel
python-redis.noarch 2.10.3-1.el7 @epel
[root@localhost tmp]#
[root@localhost tmp]# cat /etc/os-release
NAME=“CentOS Linux”
VERSION=“7 (Core)”
ID=“centos”
ID_LIKE=“rhel fedora”
VERSION_ID=“7”
PRETTY_NAME=“CentOS Linux 7 (Core)”
ANSI_COLOR=“0;31”
CPE_NAME=“cpe:/o:centos:centos:7”

CENTOS_MANTISBT_PROJECT=“CentOS-7”
CENTOS_MANTISBT_PROJECT_VERSION=“7”
REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT=“centos”
REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT_VERSION=“7”

[root@localhost tmp]#

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Just run

yum update