On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 12:02 PM, Tony Schreiner <anthony.schrei...@bc.edu> wrote: > >> > >> > Just a note. I had checked that I had enabled EPEL but, that would have >> > been >> > the CentOS EPEL. >> > >> >> Isn't it all the same? EPEL is semi-official for Centos in that that >> you can install EPEL by running >> yum --enablerepo=extras install epel-release. That is, the release >> package that installs the EPEL repo is available in the Centos extras >> repo which is part of the distribution. >> > > I don't know if that's the case for upstream RHEL though. > > (Don't have one to see for myself) >
I didn't think so myself but this suggests that you can: https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/installing-rhel-epel-repo-on-centos-redhat-7-x/ Their method #2 should work in any case, and I think the version of yum in RHEL/Centos 6 and up will handle URL's directly so you could shorten that to: yum install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
