Can’t install new rpms using yum? Update won’t work? Chances are if you’re seeing the error message below, the repository files are not the problem.

Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: fedora. Please verify its path and try again

It may be something easily overlooked – the dns resolver!

Check /etc/resolv.conf and make sure your dhcp server is supplying at least one line starting with “nameserver”. If your system uses dhclient, then /etc/resolv.conf should look something like this:

; generated by /sbin/dhclient-script
search domain.com
nameserver 192.168.0.1
nameserver 192.168.1.1

If that fixes it, the problem was in converting the host names in the repository files under /etc/yum.repos.d/ into IP addresses.

Posted on August 3rd, by admica in fedora, simple.

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