How to Install EPEL Repository on RHEL, Rocky & AlmaLinux

I need help, please. I have attempted the install of the epel repo, it says it’s already there, but whenever I do a yum update, I get a bunch of these

http://mirror.grid.uchicago.edu/pub/linux/epel/7/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml.asc: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404 - Not Found
https://mirror.umd.edu/fedora/epel/7/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml.asc: [Errno 14] HTTPS Error 404 - Not Found
https://mirrors.sonic.net/epel/7/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml.asc: [Errno 14] HTTPS Error 404 - Not Found
https://muug.ca/mirror/fedora-epel/7/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml.asc: [Errno 14] HTTPS Error 404 - Not Found
https://ord.mirror.rackspace.com/epel/7/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml.asc: [Errno 14] HTTPS Error 404 - Not Found
http://mirror.nodesdirect.com/epel/7/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml.asc: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404 - Not Found
https://mirror.steadfastnet.com/epel/7/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml.asc: [Errno 14] HTTPS Error 404 - Not Found
http://mirror.rnet.missouri.edu/epel/7/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml.asc: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404 - Not Found
http://fedora-epel.mirror.lstn.net/7/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml.asc: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404 - Not Found
https://d2lzkl7pfhq30w.cloudfront.net/pub/epel/7/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml.asc: [Errno 14] HTTPS Error 404 - Not Found
http://mirror.oss.ou.edu/epel/7/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml.asc: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404 - Not Found
https://dfw.mirror.rackspace.com/epel/7/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml.asc: [Errno 14] HTTPS Error 404 - Not Found
https://mirror.dal.nexril.net/fedora-epel/7/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml.asc: [Errno 14] HTTPS Error 404 - Not Found
https://pubmirror2.math.uh.edu/fedora-buffet/epel/7/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml.asc: [Errno 14] HTTPS Error 404 - Not Found

I don’t actually see the files when I navigate to those locations separately. Can you help, please?

Thank you!
Sondra

Hello Ravi,
When I am trying to install squid proxy.
Its showing

no package squid available

what i can do?

I got the error
[root@jp1_redhat ansi]# yum repolist
Loaded plugins: product-id, rhnplugin, security, subscription-manager
This system is receiving updates from Red Hat Subscription Management.
This system is receiving updates from RHN Classic or RHN Satellite.
Error: xz compression not available
[root@jp1_redhat ansi]#

This no longer works if I enter the commands for installation on CentOS 7.
# wget http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/x86_64/e/epel-release-7-8.noarch.rpm
# rpm -ivh epel-release-7-8.noarch.rpm
The download works but then when ever I run yum I get this unknown repo message I do not know how to get rid of and I do not have access the the epel repo

Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks
epel/i386/metalink | 40 kB 00:00:00
Could not parse metalink https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=epel-7&arch=i386 error was
No repomd file

One of the configured repositories failed (Unknown),
and yum doesn’t have enough cached data to continue. At this point the only
safe thing yum can do is fail. There are a few ways to work “fix” this:

1. Contact the upstream for the repository and get them to fix the problem.

2. Reconfigure the baseurl/etc. for the repository, to point to a working
upstream. This is most often useful if you are using a newer
distribution release than is supported by the repository (and the
packages for the previous distribution release still work).

3. Disable the repository, so yum won’t use it by default. Yum will then
just ignore the repository until you permanently enable it again or use
–enablerepo for temporary usage:

yum-config-manager –disable

4. Configure the failing repository to be skipped, if it is unavailable.
Note that yum will try to contact the repo. when it runs most commands,
so will have to try and fail each time (and thus. yum will be be much
slower). If it is a very temporary problem though, this is often a nice
compromise:

yum-config-manager –save –setopt=.skip_if_unavailable=true

File /var/cache/yum/i386/7/epel/metalink.xml does not exist

@Ravi,
I am not able to install Mysql on centos6.4 ??

Getting Error
sudo yum install mysql-server-5.5
Loaded plugins: product-id, security, subscription-manager
This system is not registered to Red Hat Subscription Management. You can use subscription-manager to register.
Setting up Install Process
No package mysql-server-5.5 available.
Error: Nothing to do

After installing of
[root@vkcdpl rpmfusion]# rpm -ivh epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
warning: epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm: Header V3 RSA/SHA256 Signature, key ID 0608b895: NOKEY
Preparing… ########################################### [100%]
1:epel-release ########################################### [100%]
yum not working in my rhel 6
[root@vkcdpl rpmfusion]# yum repolist
Loaded plugins: product-id, refresh-packagekit, security, subscription-manager
This system is not registered to Red Hat Subscription Management. You can use subscription-manager to register.
Error: Cannot retrieve metalink for repository: epel. Please verify its path and try again
[root@vkcdpl rpmfusion]# yum list
Loaded plugins: product-id, refresh-packagekit, security, subscription-manager
This system is not registered to Red Hat Subscription Management. You can use subscription-manager to register.
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: epel. Please verify its path and try again

kindly explain me