Questions tagged [epel]
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Can't install unzip on RedHat Enterprise Linux Server 7
OS version:
[root@node1 ~]# cat /etc/os-release
NAME="Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server"
VERSION="7.7 (Maipo)"
ID="rhel"
ID_LIKE="fedora"
VARIANT="Server"
VARIANT_ID="server"
VERSION_ID="7.7"
PRETTY_NAME="Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7.7…

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Installing OpenVPN on Red Hat 8
I am having an issue getting OpenVPN 2.4.8 installed and enabled on a Red Hat 8 server running as an EC2 instance on AWS.
The steps I have taken are as follows.
Added the EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) repository by running the…

Jake Price
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Installing repos with https breaks yum on CentOS
We have a very similar problem to https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48320850/installing-epel-repository-on-centos-7-breaks-yum-functionality/58177576#58177576. I've seen several pleas for help as I've searched the web for an answer with the most…

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Why is htop only available in EPEL on CentOS/RHEL?
I'm just honestly curious why htop isn't available in the base, extras or even centosplus repos. To me it seems innocent and useful, but maybe I've overlooked some aspect of it, such as licensing, and I'm just wondering what the decisionmaking…

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error: unpacking of archive failed on file /etc/httpd/logs: cpio: rename
I'm working on an old server of mine. I'm trying to run yum update and there seems to be an issue.
So far, I've tried setting that log directory to 777 and same with the 2 log files within it.
That didn't help. Any ideas what is wrong?
# yum…

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Nagios on RHEL 6 (EPEL package) stopped working after update
The EPEL package for Nagios on RedHat Enterprise Linux 6 has been updated some weeks ago from version 3.4 to version 4.3. The update has been done by a simple yum update command, and nothing indicated a major version change.
Although after the…

Ale
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broken ceph dependency with centos7 and epel
Okay, I'm trying to install ceph, using just "yum install ceph" from the epel repositories.
This is what I get:
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Package: 1:python-cephfs-0.80.7-0.8.el7.x86_64 (epel)
Requires: python-rados =…

Jeroen Jacobs
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could not find recipe epel for cookbook yum
i am having trouble with nginx cookbook.. and it dependency on yum-epel.
Getting error :
" Chef::Exceptions::RecipeNotFound
could not find recipe epel for cookbook yum"
$ knife cookbook show nginx nginx 2.7.6 2.7.5 2.7.4 1.8.0
$ knife cookbook…

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Missing `fastcgi_cache_purge` from Centos 7 EPEL `yum install nginx`
I installed nginx on Centos 7.1 with yum install nginx (from the EPEL repos). I am setting up WordPress caching as per https://codex.wordpress.org/Nginx and getting unknown directive "fastcgi_cache_purge" error on start.
I dont have the module…

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While trying to enable epel I somehow broke my repolist
I originally posted this on stack overflow and was told this was the better place to ask:
I made the attempt at enabling EPEL on my Fedora 22 machine by running
wget…

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Lighttpd ldap auth issue, massive performance loss (lighttpd 1.4.35-1.el6.x86_64 + RHEL 6.6)
I installed lighttpd for the first time from epel repo.
I changed user and group for the webserver and ran the lighttpd server.
I can download a page with 200 small images in about a second.
If I enable ldap authentication with configuring ldap and…

Daniel Sootcliff
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fedora packages for enterprise linux
There are a number of packages available on fedora that I would like to install on RHEL v6.x. These packages do not appear to be available from RHEL (release, release-optional, or supplementary channels) or EPEL…

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transitioning packages to EPEL version
I have previously installed backuppc 3.1.0 from centos 5 testing. The package is now not maintaned by centos anymore.
EPEL have BackupPC version 3.3.0, but yum check-update did not suggest that this package is a replacement for the backuppc package…

Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan
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EPEL broken package : How do I reach to EPEL maintainer?
.. it looks like at least two of packages that comes from EPEL is broken:
[alexus@wcmisdlin02 ~]$ sudo yum update --skip-broken
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit, security
Setting up Update Process
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction…

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Selinux blocks wordpress in CentOS 6.3
I installed wordpress 3.5 to CentOS 6.3 using command:
yum install wordpress
and started httpd. Now I can see the following error in apache log:
PHP Fatal error: require_once(): Failed opening required
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Antonio
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