Linux – Which EPEL release do I need

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I have a 64 bit server machine with:

Oracle Linux Server release 6.5
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.5 (Santiago)

and I need to install EPEL repository. I've already tried few of them:

https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/x86_64/epel-release-t-5.noarch.rpm
https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

but after their installation(e.g. rpm -ivh epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm) I'm getting the following message when trying to yum e.g.:

# yum repolist
Error: xz compression not available

What am I doing wrong?

Best Answer

For CentOS the extras repository, which is enabled by default, contains a package to install/enable EPEL called epel-release. Likely Oracle Linux has it someplace in the regular repositories as well.

yum install epel-release

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