EPEL Error

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Sun, 22 Sep 2013 10:42:27 +0530
Kunal Pednekar <kunal.pednekar at ess.net.in> wrote:

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

...snip...

> [root at 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
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