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Created March 9, 2015 07:21
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Install latest epel-release on RHEL 7 machine
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epel-release-latest
#!/usr/bin/env bash
EPEL_URL_PREFIX=http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/x86_64/e/
# install any requirements
yum -y install curl
RPM_NAME=$(curl --silent ${EPEL_URL_PREFIX} \
| egrep -oh "epel-release-7-[0-9]*.noarch.rpm" \
| sort -u | head -n 1)
yum -y install ${EPEL_URL_PREFIX}${RPM_NAME}
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