CentOS-8

Learn about CentOS release 8

Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL)

Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) is a special interest group (SIG) from the Fedora Project that provides a set of additional packages for RHEL (and CentOS, and others) from the Fedora sources.

dnf -y install epel-release
dnf update -y
[root@192 ~]# dnf install epel-release
Last metadata expiration check: 1:50:34 ago on Fri 17 Jul 2020 11:34:52 AM CEST.
Dependencies resolved.
================================================================================================================
 Package                       Architecture            Version                    Repository               Size
================================================================================================================
Installing:
 epel-release                  noarch                  8-8.el8                    extras                   23 k

Transaction Summary
================================================================================================================
Install  1 Package

Total download size: 23 k
Installed size: 32 k
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
epel-release-8-8.el8.noarch.rpm                                                  98 kB/s |  23 kB     00:00    
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Total                                                                            71 kB/s |  23 kB     00:00     
warning: /var/cache/dnf/extras-2770d521ba03e231/packages/epel-release-8-8.el8.noarch.rpm: Header V3 RSA/SHA256 Signature, key ID 8483c65d: NOKEY
CentOS-8 - Extras                                                               1.6 MB/s | 1.6 kB     00:00    
Importing GPG key 0x8483C65D:
 Userid     : "CentOS (CentOS Official Signing Key) <security@centos.org>"
 Fingerprint: 99DB 70FA E1D7 CE22 7FB6 4882 05B5 55B3 8483 C65D
 From       : /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-centosofficial
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Key imported successfully
Running transaction check
Transaction check succeeded.
Running transaction test
Transaction test succeeded.
Running transaction
  Preparing        :                                                                                        1/1 
  Installing       : epel-release-8-8.el8.noarch                                                            1/1 
  Running scriptlet: epel-release-8-8.el8.noarch                                                            1/1 
  Verifying        : epel-release-8-8.el8.noarch                                                            1/1 
Installed products updated.

Installed:
  epel-release-8-8.el8.noarch                                                                                   

Complete!


[root@192 ~]# dnf update
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64                          122 kB/s |  82 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                                  1.1 MB/s | 7.4 MB     00:06    
Dependencies resolved.
Nothing to do.
Complete!

How to install draw.io

# check the latest available release of draw.io from github before installing.
sudo dnf install https://github.com/jgraph/drawio-desktop/releases/download/v13.4.5/draw.io-x86_64-13.4.5.rpm

References

fedoraproject-wiki-epel


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