How to Enable EL repository in CentOS 7

The EL repository is an additional RPM repository for Enterprise Linux. ELRepo supports Red Hat Enterprise Linux and its derivatives Scientific Linux, CentOS and its other distributions that provides hardware related file system drivers, graphics drivers, network drivers, sound drivers, webcam and video driver’s related packages.
This article describes How to Enable EL repository in CentOS 7.

Step 1. Package installation: Run the following yum command to install elrepo-release package:

[root@linuxcnf ~]# yum install https://www.elrepo.org/elrepo-release-7.0-4.el7.elrepo.noarch.rpm Loaded plugins: fastestmirror elrepo-release-7.0-4.el7.elrepo.noarch.rpm …………… Installed:   elrepo-release.noarch 0:7.0-4.el7.elrepo Complete! [root@linuxcnf ~]#

Step 2. Verification: Run the following command to verify the installation of EL repository:

[root@linuxcnf ~]# yum repolist Loaded plugins: fastestmirror ……………… repo id                                                       repo name                                                                                           status base/7/x86_64                                                 CentOS-7 - Base                                                                                     10,097 elrepo                                                        ELRepo.org Community Enterprise Linux Repository - el7                                                 138 extras/7/x86_64                                               CentOS-7 - Extras                                                                                      304 updates/7/x86_64                                              CentOS-7 - Updates                                                                                     332 repolist: 10,871 [root@linuxcnf ~]#

Done!!! Now the EL repository is configured in CentOS 7.