Installing from EPEL on Amazon EC2

Solution 1:

You should check that epel is enabled using

yum repolist enabled

If it's not then you can edit /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo and change the [epel] section

enabled=0

to

enabled=1

---

or use

 yum-config-manager --enable epel

Solution 2:

The epel repo is on the default Amazon server but in not enabled by default. You can use it to install a package:

sudo yum --enablerepo epel install fail2ban