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

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

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

Try

yum clean all --enablerepo=*

Then

yum update --disablerepo=epel

Answer 4

I've workaround this issue by changing the https entries in epel.repo file to http.

Answer 5

I guess this should work. I solved my problem with this.

$ sudo yum clean all

$ sudo yum --disablerepo="epel" update nss

Answer 6

All of the above did not work for me, but a rebuild of the rpm database, with the following command, did:

sudo rpm --rebuilddb

Thanks all for the help.