Error cannot retrieve metalink for repository epel please verify its path and try again centos

I’m trying to update Orion ContextBroker using the command yum install contextBroker. Unfortunatelly I get the following error:

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

What could be going wrong ?

asked Nov 4, 2014 at 12:08

I solved this issue editing both /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo and /etc/yum.repos.d/epel-testing.repo files, commenting all entries starting with mirrorlist=... and uncommenting all the entries starting with baseurl=....

For my case commenting out mirrorlist and uncomenting entries with baseurl din’t work. I noticed the problem was with the https iniside the .repofedora files. I solved it by going in /etc/yum.repository.d and replacing all https with http in different .repo files. That worked!!

I tried most of these solutions and none of them worked for me.

The only thing that worked for me was to disable and remove the offending repo.

sudo yum --disablerepo=epel* remove epel-release.noarch

answered Mar 18, 2021 at 17:20

For boxes that does not have internet access, you can remove epel repository:

yum remove epel-release --disablerepo=epel

This happened to me as I accidentally installed epel-release using rpm on a prod box.

answered Jun 30, 2016 at 17:39

answered Apr 13, 2015 at 14:26

I was getting this error when running a Centos 7 virtualbox VM on Windows 10. After much faff I found the error was coming from yum trying to use IPV6 so I had to edit /etc/yum.conf by adding:

ip_resolve = 4

I hope this helps someone else spend less time on this error than me!

answered Oct 18, 2021 at 15:54

First of all, check your «yum» configuration in /etc/yum.conf
Then do try above tips

answered Apr 19, 2016 at 20:26

Fixed mine like this:

yum install elfutils-default-yama-scope-0.168-8.el7.noarch --disablerepo=epel
yum install nss-pem -disablerepo=epel
yum reinstall ca-certificates --disablerepo=epel
yum clean all
rm -rf /var/cache/yum
yum update`

None of these worked for me (I didn’t even try the hacks like manually editing the repo file).

However it worked after a simple yum update -y

answered May 29, 2019 at 21:38

Another possible cause is that your architecture is not supported. I ran into this because I was provided with a CentOS VM, wanted to install EPEL and couldn’t for the life of me get it done.

Turns out the VM was CentOS 7 i386, which is an architecture that is apparently no longer supported by EPEL. I guess the only remedy in this case is to reinstall.

answered Dec 18, 2019 at 9:22

In my case when I comment out mirrorlist the error got away but the repo was also not working so I manually point the right baseurl in /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo as below

[epel]
name=Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 7 - $basearch
baseurl=http://iad.mirror.rackspace.com/epel/7Server/x86_64/
#metalink=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=epel-7&arch=$basearch&infra=$infra&content=$contentdir
failovermethod=priority
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-7

[epel-debuginfo]
name=Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 7 - $basearch - Debug
baseurl=http://iad.mirror.rackspace.com/epel/7Server/x86_64/debug/
#metalink=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=epel-debug-7&arch=$basearch&infra=$infra&content=$contentdir
failovermethod=priority
enabled=0
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-7
gpgcheck=1

[epel-source]
name=Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 7 - $basearch - Source
baseurl=http://iad.mirror.rackspace.com/epel/7Server/SRPMS/
#metalink=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=epel-source-7&arch=$basearch&infra=$infra&content=$contentdir
failovermethod=priority
enabled=0
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-7
gpgcheck=1

answered Jul 7, 2020 at 16:35

Try

yum clean all --enablerepo=*

Then

yum update --disablerepo=epel

answered Dec 6, 2020 at 17:40

For obsolete CentOS 6, I used this in /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo

baseurl=https://d2lzkl7pfhq30w.cloudfront.net/pub/archive/epel/6/$basearch

answered Jun 21, 2021 at 7:37

I’ve got a VM running CentOS 6 (64bit) and I’m attempting to add the EPEL repo like usual to install various packages as I do quite regularly.

Today, I’m experiencing some strange errors yet I’m doing absolutely nothing differently.

I’m adding EPEL like so:

# wget http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
# rpm -ivh epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

Yet when I try running yum for anything, I’m getting this error:

[root@core /]# yum list

Loaded plugins: fastestmirror

Determining fastest mirrors

Error: Cannot retrieve metalink for repository: epel. Please verify its path and try again

Any ideas? I’m stumped!

Ridiculously using secure HTTP is causing a problem yet normal HTTP is working fine. This shouldn’t be happening with a fresh install so there must be an issue with Fedora’s repositories. It’s working now.