How To Install EPEL Repository (Repo) on an RHEL 8

To install the Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) repository on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8, follow these steps:

1. Download the EPEL release package for RHEL 8 using the following command:

wget https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm

2. Install the EPEL release package using the rpm command:

sudo rpm -Uvh epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm

3. Once the installation is complete, you can verify that the EPEL repository is enabled by running the following command:

yum repolist

This will list all of the enabled repositories on your system. The EPEL repository should be listed among them.

4. To install a package from the EPEL repository, you can use the yum command as you would with any other repository. For example:

yum install package-name