diff --git a/prepare.sh b/prepare.sh
index bb24ce7..1c9ff8f 100755
--- a/prepare.sh
+++ b/prepare.sh
@@ -48,3 +48,10 @@ if [ -n "$ADDITIONAL_TASK_IDS" ]; then
         mtps-get-task --createrepo --installrepofile --recursive --task="$additional_task_id" --download='/var/lib/repo-for-side-tag' --repofilename=side-tag
     done
 fi
+
+EPEL_RELEASE_PACKAGE="https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-10.noarch.rpm"
+ACTION="install"
+if [ $(rpm -q epel-release) ]; then
+    ACTION="reinstall"
+fi
+dnf -y $ACTION $EPEL_RELEASE_PACKAGE