Which EPEL release do I need?

Question

I have a 64 bit server machine with:

Oracle Linux Server release 6.5
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.5 (Santiago)

and I need to install EPEL repository. I've already tried few of them:

https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/x86_64/epel-release-t-5.noarch.rpm
https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

but after their installation(e.g. rpm -ivh epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm) I'm getting the following message when trying to yum e.g.:

# yum repolist
Error: xz compression not available

What am I doing wrong?

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL and there you can find more information about the EPEL — c4f4t0r, Jun 10 '15 at 08:35
@c4f4t0r not of much help. this error persists regardless of which epel release I download and install. — Sylca, Jun 10 '15 at 09:17

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 10 '15 at 11:47

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For CentOS the extras repository, which is enabled by default, contains a package to install/enable EPEL called epel-release. Likely Oracle Linux has it someplace in the regular repositories as well.

yum install epel-release

answered Jun 10 '15 at 11:47

Brian

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score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 10 '15 at 09:30

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I had to rm -rf /var/cache/yum/x86_64/6/epel because there was some leftovers from wrong version and

rpm -ivh http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

and it worked!

answered Jun 10 '15 at 09:30

Sylca

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Which EPEL release do I need?

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