Re: EPEL Error

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Sun, 22 Sep 2013 10:42:27 +0530
Kunal Pednekar <kunal.pednekar(a)ess.net.in&gt; wrote:

>  Hi Team,
>  
>  I tried to install packages after downloading EPEL. But I am getting 
>  following error: 
...snip...

>  [root@ess19 ~]# yum install foo
>  Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit, security, tmprepo
>  Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for
>  repository: epel. Please verify its path and try again
>  
>  Can you please help me here? 
Is the date/time set correctly on your server? If it's way off the
default metalink will be invalid and it won't get any info from it. 

If the date/time is set right, try doing: 

URLGRABBER_DEBUG=1 yum install foo

and attach the last few hundred lines or so, that should indicate the
error. 

kevin