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Enable EPEL Repository on RHEL9

June 3, 2025
Infrastructure, Tutorials
Rhel9, Epel, Repository, Packages, Linux

Enable EPEL Repository on RHEL 9 #

The EPEL repository provides packages that are not included in the standard RHEL repositories, such as htop and vim for example.

Prerequisites #

Before installing EPEL, you need to enable the CodeReady Builder repository, which provides dependencies for many EPEL packages.

Installation Steps #

Enable codeready builder repository # 

subscription-manager repos --enable codeready-builder-for-rhel-9-$(arch)-rpms

Install epel-release # 

dnf install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-9.noarch.rpm

Verification #

After installation, you can verify that EPEL is enabled by listing available repositories: