How to update Centos 5 .X and cannot find a valid baseurl for repo

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How to update Centos 5 .X and cannot find a valid baseurl for repo

If you are using CentOS 5.x and want to install any software and update CentOS 5.x  . you are getting following error .

root@server1 [~]# yum update -y
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Determining fastest mirrors
YumRepo Error: All mirror URLs are not using ftp, http[s] or file.
 Eg. Invalid release/
removing mirrorlist with no valid mirrors: /var/cache/yum/base/mirrorlist.txt
Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: base

This is because update repositories were moved to the CentOS vault when the operating reached it's end-of-life.

Edit the following file

/etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo

 

[base]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Base
mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=os
#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/os/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5

Comment out the mirror list, and uncomment the baseurl and change with  http://vault.centos.org/5.11/os/x86_64/


then it will look like below

 

[base]
name=CentOS-$releasever – Base
#mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=os
baseurl=http://vault.centos.org/5.11/os/x86_64/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5

#released updates
[updates]
name=CentOS-$releasever – Updates
#mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=updates
baseurl=http://vault.centos.org/5.11/os/x86_64/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5

#additional packages that may be useful
[extras]
name=CentOS-$releasever – Extras
#mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=extras
baseurl=http://vault.centos.org/5.11/os/x86_64/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5

#additional packages that extend functionality of existing packages
[centosplus]
name=CentOS-$releasever – Plus
#mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=centosplus
baseurl=http://vault.centos.org/5.11/os/x86_64/
gpgcheck=1
enabled=0
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5

#contrib – packages by Centos Users
[contrib]
name=CentOS-$releasever – Contrib
#mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=contrib
baseurl=http://vault.centos.org/5.11/os/x86_64/
gpgcheck=1
enabled=0
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5

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for 32-bit systems, use: http://vault.centos.org/5.11/os/i386/

for 64-bit systems, use: http://vault.centos.org/5.11/os/x86_64/

 

Once you have added this, run the following to clean your yum cache:

yum clean all

 

Then update yum to start using the new repositories:


yum update


source URL for more help and details https://www.ndchost.com/wiki/centos5/cannot-find-a-valid-baseurl-error-fix




 

		


				
			




			

				


		

		
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