Friday, January 10, 2014

How to fix Cannot retrieve metalink for repository: fedora/20/x86_64. Please verify its path and try again

Posted on Friday, January 10, 2014 by nayana
When you try to run follow two command there can be this error showing in the Terminal.

yum update
yum check-update

  1. First you check if the Network connection and Internet works fine.
  2. Run yum clean all command and try to clean the corrupted repository data 
  3. Try to run the command in the debug mode as below. The you can get the details error message. If it says some URL cannot be acess then try to access that URL from your web browser and check if the URL work URLGRABBER_DEBUG=1 yum update 
  4. If your network environment uses proxy, then check your Linux version configured with correct proxy.
  5. Check your system date is correct.

15 comments:

  1. AnonymousMonday, March 17, 2014 2:21:00 AM

    Hello!
    Y have this problem
    No solution works
    :(
    http://www.forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=297931

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  2. AnonymousWednesday, July 23, 2014 2:30:00 AM

    I have same problem, but in my situation helped set enviroment http_proxy and https_proxy

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  3. AnonymousTuesday, August 19, 2014 9:13:00 AM

    uncomment baseurl in fedora.repo file in /etc/yum.repos.d/ and comment the metalink line in the same. repeat for all *.repo files in the directory if required

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    1. AnonymousWednesday, September 03, 2014 6:10:00 AM

      This worked just fine!! thanks!!!!!

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    2. AnonymousFriday, October 10, 2014 5:42:00 AM

      But the file is read only

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    3. AnonymousFriday, October 17, 2014 5:12:00 AM

      Become "root" and there u go .. ;)

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    4. AnonymousWednesday, April 22, 2015 5:42:00 PM

      Thank you, this works flawlessly ! :))

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  4. AnonymousWednesday, September 03, 2014 4:36:00 PM

    Works very well for me, thanks nayana.

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  5. AnonymousFriday, October 17, 2014 5:11:00 AM

    Very nice fix, thanks mate!

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  6. AnonymousThursday, October 30, 2014 1:30:00 PM

    Thank you, Thank you.. Someone with the correct answer.

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  7. raviSaturday, April 04, 2015 9:34:00 PM

    command is successfully running

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  8. AnonymousSunday, June 14, 2015 1:18:00 AM

    i did that. not working

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  9. v!p!nWednesday, August 10, 2016 1:53:00 AM

    I solved in this way!!!!

    Go to /etc/yum
    add a line proxy=http://ip:port

    It should work!!

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  10. ssaMonday, July 22, 2019 9:35:00 PM

    how to go for /etc/yum

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  11. AnonymousTuesday, May 07, 2024 2:22:00 AM

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