EPEL stands for “Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux”, which is a free and open source repository of additional packages available for CentOS and RHEL servers. As the name suggests, the EPEL repository provides additional packages that are not available in the default package repositories of CentOS 8 and RHEL 8.
In this article, we will demonstrate how to enable and use EPEL repository on CentOS 8 and RHEL 8 servers.