On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 12:02 PM, Tony Schreiner
<anthony.schreiner AT bc DOT edu> wrote:
>
>> >
>> > Just a note. I had checked that I had enabled EPEL but, that would have
>> > been
>> > the CentOS EPEL.
>> >
>>
>> Isn't it all the same?   EPEL is semi-official for Centos in that that
>>  you can install EPEL by running
>> yum --enablerepo=extras install epel-release.    That is, the release
>> package that installs the EPEL repo is available in the Centos extras
>> repo which is part of the distribution.
>>
>
> I don't know if that's the case for upstream RHEL though.
>
> (Don't have one to see for myself)
>

I didn't think so myself but this suggests that you can:
 https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/installing-rhel-epel-repo-on-centos-redhat-7-x/

Their method #2 should work in any case, and I think the version of
yum in RHEL/Centos 6 and up will handle URL's directly so you could
shorten that to:

yum install 
https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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