How to Enable EPEL Repository for RHEL/CentOS 7.x/6.x/5.x

Last Updated: 9/10/15

## RHEL/CentOS 6 64-Bit ##
wget http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
rpm -ivh epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
sudo sed -i "s/mirrorlist=https/mirrorlist=http/" /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo

source:

How to Enable EPEL Repository for RHEL/CentOS 7.x/6.x/5.x
http://www.tecmint.com/how-to-enable-epel-repository-for-rhel-centos-6-5/

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https://community.hpcloud.com/article/centos-63-instance-giving-cannot-retrieve-metalink-repository-epel-error

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