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Re: Still having problem with epel
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Orion Poplawski <[log in to unmask]>
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Orion Poplawski <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 2 Jan 2014 19:55:21 -0700
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On 01/02/2014 12:39 AM, Mahmood Naderan wrote:
> 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
> 

Strange.

Can you download the metalink file directly?

curl 'https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=epel-6&arch=x86_64'



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Orion Poplawski
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