How to Enable EPEL and Remi Repository into CentOS 6

EPEL stand for Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux. EPEL repository is a Fedora Special Interest Group that creates, maintains, and manages a high quality set of additional packages for Enterprise Linux, including, but not limited to, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), CentOS and Scientific Linux (SL), Oracle Enterprise Linux(OEL). Remi repository is a yum repository maintained by a French dude – Remi Collet. This post describe the basic steps to prepare and install the additional CentOS packages with EPEL and Remi Repository into CentOS 6.

EPEL Repository

rpm --import https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-6
rpm -Uvh https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

Remi Repository

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

Example :

[root@centos6 ~]# rpm --import https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-6
[root@centos6 ~]# rpm -Uvh https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
Retrieving https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
   1:epel-release           ########################################### [100%]

[root@centos6 ~]# rpm --import http://rpms.famillecollet.com/RPM-GPG-KEY-remi
[root@centos6 ~]# rpm -Uvh http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-6.rpm
Retrieving http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-6.rpm
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
   1:remi-release           ########################################### [100%]

Example of EPEl and Remi repo usage :

[root@centos6 ~]# yum --enablerepo=epel install httpd -y

[root@centos6 ~]# yum --enablerepo=remi install httpd -y