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EPEL Repo for CentOS 6 causing error

I've got a VM running CentOS 6 (64bit) and I'm attempting to add the EPEL repo like usual to install various packages as I do quite regularly. Today, I'm experiencing some strange errors yet I'm doing absolutely nothing differently. I'm adding EPEL…
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Installing HAProxy on CentOS 6.3?

This is a weird one. I've installed the EPEL for CentOS 6 via # rpm -Uvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm The tried to install HAProxy: # yum update # yum install haproxy But receive: Loaded plugins:…
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Exclude a specific repo from YUM Update

I am doing a system wide yum update on RHEL 5.5 and the IUS EPEL repository is throwing a missing dependency error: php53-mcrypt-5.3.3-4.ius.el5.x86_64 from installed has depsolving problems --> Missing Dependency: php53-common = 5.3.3-4.ius.el5 is…
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Installing from EPEL on Amazon EC2

I am trying to install fail2ban on our Amazon EC2 Linux AMI (CentOS). I know that fail2ban is in the EPEL so I have done the following: wget http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm sudo rpm -Uvh…
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How can I install git on RHEL 6?

I'm trying to install Git on a RHEL6 development server, I have experience with Ubuntu but this is my first time working with RHEL (I'm a developer trying to fill in for a recently departed Linux Sysadmin). I've set up two additional repos (EPEL and…
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How can I remove EPEL 7.0 repo from CentOS 6.5 install?

While trying to update PHP 5.4 to 7.2, libcurl package update showing epel 7 is installed. How can I remove this from centos 6 and install epel 6.8?
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Enable the EPEL repository on AWS Elastic Beanstalk

I need to install some tools from the Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux repository (EPEL) that are not available in the default repositories of the Amazon Linux AMI. /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo already contains the needed repository, but it is…
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centos: using epel repository on a server machine

Are there any downsides in enabling epel repository on a server machine or is it something every sysadmin does?
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When should one use EPEL 5 or EPEL 6?

I am not familiar with repos, and I don't get why there are several versions of EPEL (this is a bit philosophical I know, but I am afraid I am missing something in all that). Should I just look inside of them which one has the packages I want, with…
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how to choose the correct repository for new software on Centos

I want to install PHP7 and on Centos you can only do that by installing extra repositories. I see a variety of them (remi, ius, webtatic), and the comments on forums are both pro and contra. I am not asking for personal opinions, but I am…
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Is it safe to use the EPEL repository on CentOS systems?

I recently submitted a Puppet patch which would have enabled the EPEL repository on a number of our CentOS 7 systems (I need this in order to install Python 3). One of the sysadmins rejected the patch, claiming that EPEL is not safe, and can…
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Certificate error with EPEL repository on CentOS6.7 using mirrors.fedoraproject.org

Can't update a CentOS 6.7 system with the EPEL repository configured. [epel] name=Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 6 -…
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CentOS repositories: EPEL or rpmforge, which one is better and why?

So everyone who uses CentOS knows the default repositories have their limits. I've been using rpmforge for years as a secondary repo. I usually use yum priorities to make sure rpmforge never installs something the base repo can take care of.…
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How to handle Puppet version differences between linux distributions

We're a small webdev shop that's investigating to roll out Puppet on various development and production servers. The puppetmaster is an Ubuntu 10.04 server with Puppet 0.25.4, from Ubuntu's repo. Some puppet clients are Ubuntu with puppet 0.25.4,…
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centos 6 epel alternative repository replacement

I've installed EPEL repository already on my server. I wanted to install something new and I get this error with yum : PYCURL ERROR 22 - "The requested URL returned error: 403 Forbidden" Trying other mirror. Error: Cannot retrieve repository…
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