You can easily install various packages by configuring a CentOS 8 system to use Fedora EPEL repos and third party packages. This quick tutorial explains how to configure a CentOS Linux version 8.x to use the Fedora Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) repository.
Run the following command:
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# yum search epel epel-release.noarch : Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux repository configuration # yum -y install epel-release |
Enable the PowerTools repo since EPEL package may depend on packages from it:
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# yum config-manager --set-enabled PowerTools |
To get more info about the package, run:
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# yum info epel-release |
