Install EPEL repository on RHEL 9

This evening I’m trying to enable EPEL repository on a RHEL 9 server, by following instruction is taken from How to install EPEL on RHEL and CentOS Stream article [1] by Red Hat Enable Sysadmin. Enable the CodeReady Linux Builder repository. $ sudo subscription-manager repos --enable \ codeready-builder-for-rhel-9-$(arch)-rpms Repository 'codeready-builder-for-rhel-9-x86_64-rpms' is enabled for this system. Install the EPEL RPM. $ sudo dnf install \ https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-9.noarch.rpm ...snip... Installed: epel-release-9-7.el9.noarch Complete! Let’s try to install htop (available from the EPEL repo) to verify that everything is working: $ sudo dnf install htop -y ....

November 22, 2023 · 1 min · 99 words · kenno

Installing Htop on Oracle Linux 8

I want to install htop on Oracle Linux 8.7. How hard could it be? TL;DR; - it’s not hard, but it took me a little while to get htop installed. I’m not new to (most) Linux distros, but this is the first time I’m using Oracle Linux. So, let’s start by showing some basic information. [root@catbus ~]# cat /etc/os-release | grep -i pretty PRETTY_NAME="Oracle Linux Server 8.7" [root@catbus ~]# rpm -qi htop package htop is not installed [root@catbus ~]# dnf search htop Last metadata expiration check: 0:23:03 ago on Mon 06 Feb 2023 11:32:58 AM GMT....

February 6, 2023 · 3 min · 635 words · kenno

How to Install AWS CLI on RockyLinux

The awscli package is available from the EPEL repository, which is not enabled by default on RockyLinux. Enable the EPEL repo by installing epel-release pacakge. $ sudo dnf install epel-release Once the EPEL repo is successfully enabled, we can install awscli package. $ sudo dnf install awscli Enable and verify that the awscli is installed on the system. $ aws --version aws-cli/1.18.156 Python/3.6.8 Linux/4.18.0-425.10.1.el8_7.x86_64 botocore/1.18.15 As a bonus, here is how to configure the AWS credential....

January 31, 2023 · 1 min · 144 words · kenno