EPEL - (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) is a repository founded by the Fedora project community as a set of additional packages that supplement "Fedora based" Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). But as we know, whatever can be installed on RedHat (Fedora Core being its free, permanently-beta distribution) can also be tried on CentOS - the distribution closest to RedHat, usually used as a server OS.
EPEL includes a large number of different packages for RedHat. It contains various system packages, packages for system monitoring, some things for programming, etc.
EPEL is required for various third-party repositories, or more precisely, for packages from third-party repositories, so installing it is sometimes simply unavoidable.
Well then, let's install it.
# rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm
If you have 64-bit CentOS, replace i386 with x86_64 in the address.
If it doesn't download, go through a browser to the address (again, x86_64 instead of i386 for amd64):
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/
and see which file is available to us instead of version 5-4.
Let's check:
# yum repolist | grep epel
yum repolist | grep epel
* epel: mirror.xfes.ru
epel Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 5 - i386 enabled: 5,407
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