Add EPEL Repo to CentOS or SL 6

For 64 Bit

rpm –import http://fedoraproject.org/static/0608B895.txt
wget http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
rpm -ivh epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

For 32 Bit

rpm –import http://fedoraproject.org/static/0608B895.txt
wget http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
rpm -ivh epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

Additional Add Remi Repo

rpm –import http://rpms.famillecollet.com/RPM-GPG-KEY-remi
rpm -ivh http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-6.rpm

yum install yum-priorities

Edit /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo…

vi /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo

Update: Feb-04-2024

Enable the EPEL Repository on CentOS 6.x, RHEL 6.x, or Oracle Linux 6.4 or higher. This section describes how to download and install the EPEL repository.

Download the EPEL repository:

wget https://archives.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

Install the EPEL repository:

rpm -Uvh epel-release-6*.rpm