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

Question

I have HDP 2.6.1 installed on VirtualBox and am attempting to run

yum install python-pip

However, the error below appears:

http://dev2.hortonworks.com.s3.amazonaws.com/repo/dev/master/utils/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 22 - "The requested URL returned error: 403 Forbidden"
Trying other mirror.
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Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: sandbox. Please verify its path and try again

As I need pip to install MRJob, how can I sucessfuly install pip?

Answer 1

I fixed this by:

cd /etc/yum.repos.d mv sandbox.repo /tmp

If you look in that file you see it refers to the http://dev2.hortonworks.com.s3.amazonaws.com as baseurl.

Then the yum install python-pip worked but just in case I need that sandbox repo again I moved it back mv /tmp/sandbox.repo .

EDIT - I am on the docker image but I guess would be the same for the VM. A

Answer 2

You can set the enabled flag as 0 inside sandbox.repo. You will need to perform the operation as root.

# su root 
# vi /etc/yum.repos.d/sandbox.repo

Go to INSERT mode and modify the line enabled=1 to enabled=0. Save and Exit. Finally, run a yum clean and try the installations again.

# yum clean all