Those instructions look like they are for centos. Try: 
yum install yum-conf-epel 

instead of wget/rpm 


Did you use 
yum install yum-conf-rpmfusion 


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From: "Mahmood Naderan" <[log in to unmask]> 
To: [log in to unmask] 
Sent: Thursday, January 2, 2014 2:39:35 AM 
Subject: Still having problem with epel 



Hi, 
Recently I have faced a problem with epel repository ad asked a question about that. That thread was messy so I decided to create a simpler scenario. 


I have followed the instructions from http://www.rackspace.com/knowledge_center/article/installing-rhel-epel-repo-on-centos-5x-or-6x and downloaded the rpm file. However the epel repository doesn't work for me. If I remove it, then everything is normal. Please see the commands 


# wget http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm 
--2014-01-02 11:07:27-- http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm 
Resolving dl.fedoraproject.org... 209.132.181.23, 209.132.181.24, 209.132.181.25, ... 
Connecting to dl.fedoraproject.org|209.132.181.23|:80... connected. 
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK 
Length: 14540 (14K) [application/x-rpm] 
Saving to: "epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm" 

100%[================================================================================>] 14,540 59.5K/s in 0.2s 

2014-01-02 11:07:33 (59.5 KB/s) - "epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm" 





# rpm -Uvh epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm 
Preparing... ########################################### [100%] 
1:epel-release ########################################### [100%] 



# ls -1 /etc/yum.repos.d/epel* 
/etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo 
/etc/yum.repos.d/epel-testing.repo 



# cat /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo 
[epel] 
name=Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 6 - $basearch 
#baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/$basearch 
mirrorlist=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=epel-6&arch=$basearch 
failovermethod=priority 
enabled=1 
gpgcheck=1 
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-6 

[epel-debuginfo] 
name=Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 6 - $basearch - Debug 
#baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/$basearch/debug 
mirrorlist=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=epel-debug-6&arch=$basearch 
failovermethod=priority 
enabled=0 
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-6 
gpgcheck=1 

[epel-source] 
name=Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 6 - $basearch - Source 
#baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/SRPMS 
mirrorlist=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=epel-source-6&arch=$basearch 
failovermethod=priority 
enabled=0 
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-6 
gpgcheck=1 





# yum makecache 
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, refresh-packagekit, security 
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile 
Error: Cannot retrieve metalink for repository: epel. Please verify its path and try again 



# rpm -qa | grep epel 
rpm epel-release-6-8.noarch 



# rpm -e epel-release-6-8.noarch 

# yum makecache 
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, refresh-packagekit, security 
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile 
* sl: ftp2.scientificlinux.org 
* sl-security: ftp2.scientificlinux.org 
sl | 3.5 kB 00:00 
sl-livecd-extra | 1.4 kB 00:00 
sl-security | 3.0 kB 00:00 
Metadata Cache Created 




So, how can I resolve the issue? 

Regards, 
Mahmood