yum error “Cannot retrieve metalink for repository: epel. Please verify its path and try again” updating ContextBroker

Question

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

Loaded plugins: fast

Answer 1

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=....

Answer 2

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!!

Answer 3

You may come across this message/error, after installing epel-release. The quick fix is to update your SSL certificates:

yum -y upgrade ca-certificates

Chances are the above error may also occur while certificate update, if so, just disable the epel repo i.e. use the following command:

yum -y upgrade ca-certificates --disablerepo=epel 

Once the certificates will be updated, you'll be able to use yum normally, even the epel repo will work fine. In case you're getting this same error for a different repo, just put it's name against the --disablerepo=<repo-name> flag.

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Note: use sudo if you're not the root user.

Answer 4

Changing the mirrorlist URL from https to http fixed the issue for me.

Answer 5

use this command:

sudo sed -i "s/mirrorlist=https/mirrorlist=http/" /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo

or alternatively use command

vi /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo

go to line number 4 and change the url from

mirrorlist=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=epel-6&arch=$basearch

to

mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=epel-6&arch=$basearch

Answer 6

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.