{"id":6380,"date":"2021-05-07T14:24:48","date_gmt":"2021-05-07T08:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skynats.com\/?p=6380"},"modified":"2025-10-28T10:58:42","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T05:28:42","slug":"enable-epel-repository-on-almallinux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skynats.com\/blog\/enable-epel-repository-on-almallinux\/","title":{"rendered":"Enabling EPEL repository on AlmaLinux 8"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since the official repositories of RHEL, CentOS, and AlmaLinux do not include all available packages, you may need to install additional software. To address this, you can enable the EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) repository on AlmaLinux 8. Enabling the EPEL repository on AlmaLinux 8 provides access to a wide range of extra packages, ensuring high-quality additional software for Enterprise Linux systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our technical team support will resolve the PHP that has encountered an access violation under our<span style=\"color:#036c99\" class=\"has-inline-color\">&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skynats.com\/linux-server-management\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><span style=\"color:#02658f\" class=\"has-inline-color\">server management<\/span><\/a><span class=\"has-inline-color has-primary-color\"> plan. <\/span>You can also get assistance from our technical team support 24\/7 will handle similar issues or any sort of installation and migration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-normal-font-size\" id=\"h-how-to-enable-epel-repository-on-almalinux-8\"><strong>How to Enable EPEL Repository on AlmaLinux 8<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In order to Enable EPEL repository on AlmaLinux 8 you need to follow a few steps which are simple and common for all RedHat-based Linux distros including AlmaLinux.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is easy to add an Extra package repository for Enterprise Linux. Just like CentOS or RHEL 8, we can run the following command in the command terminal of <a href=\"https:\/\/almalinux.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AlmaLinux<\/a>. This will enable EPEL.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>sudo dnf install epel-release<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Running a System update<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After adding the EPEL, you need to run the system update command.This allows the system to rebuild the repository cache so you don&#8217;t face any problem while installing any package available via this repo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Executive command to update the system:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>sudo dnf update<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Checking the added EPEL version<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is no need for checking the version. if you wish to re-confirm it, execute the command given below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>rpm -q epel-release<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Common error<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">one of the common error seen while enabling EPEL:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No match for argument: epel-release<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Error: Unable to find a match<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Cause<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The cause may be due to dependency passenger is missing from the server.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Solution<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can resolve the error by installing the passenger on the server.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>sudo dnf install passenger<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Conclusion<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In brief, follow the steps to enable the EPELrepository on AlmalLinux 8. You need can take any sort of help from our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skynats.com\/contact-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><span style=\"color:#036792\" class=\"has-inline-color\">technical team<\/span><\/a> support to resolve the error on your behalf.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the official repositories of RHEL, CentOS, and AlmaLinux do not include all available packages, you may need to install additional software. To address this, you can enable the EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) repository on AlmaLinux 8. Enabling the EPEL repository on AlmaLinux 8 provides access to a wide range of extra packages, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,208,277,239,224,230,229,68],"tags":[472,473],"class_list":["post-6380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-centos-7","category-centos-8","category-linux","category-php-8-0","category-rhel-7","category-rhel8","category-server-management","tag-enabling-epel-repository-on-almalinux-8","tag-how-to-enabling-epel-repository-on-almalinux-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skynats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skynats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skynats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skynats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skynats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.skynats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16372,"href":"https:\/\/www.skynats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6380\/revisions\/16372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skynats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skynats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skynats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}