Information about the package, epel-release, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The epel-release package is designed for, Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux repository configuration.
Package Name:
epel-release
Summary:
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux repository configuration
Description:
This package contains the Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) repository GPG key as well as configuration for yum and up2date.
Architecture:
noarch
Version:
6
Release:
8
Size:
22 k
Repository:
installed
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2
Control the epel-release package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install epel-release
This command will install epel-release on the server.
yum remove epel-release
This command will un-install epel-release on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove epel-release, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove epel-release
This command will un-install epel-release on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove epel-release when using the -y flag.
yum update epel-release
This command will update epel-release to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove epel-release, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update epel-release
This command will update epel-release to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove epel-release when using the -y flag.
yum info epel-release
This command will show you core information about the epel-release package.
yum deplist epel-release
This command will show you the dependencies for epel-release. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update epel-release
This command will check if there is an update waiting on epel-release. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.