Fix Failed to download metadata for repo ‘Stream-centosplus’
In this article, I will give a tutorial on how to fix Failed to download metadata for repo ‘Stream-centosplus’ when do yum update on Centos 8 Stream. This problem occurs because of the Centos client can’t find a valid URL for the Stream-centoplus repository.
To fix this we just need to change the Stream-centosplus repository to a valid URL. Centos has usually put a comment in front of this repository line URL, so we need to uncomment that line.
To do that, open the terminal and log in as an administrator or superuser.
# sudo su
open and edit this Stream-centosplus repository configuration file using text editor, in this case, I’m using nano.
# nano /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Stream-centosplus.repo
Output:
GNU nano 2.9.8 /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Stream-centosplus.repo # CentOS-centosplus.repo # # The mirror system uses the connecting IP address of the client and the # update status of each mirror to pick mirrors that are updated to and # geographically close to the client. You should use this for CentOS updates # unless you are manually picking other mirrors. # # If the mirrorlist= does not work for you, as a fall back you can try the # remarked out baseurl= line instead. # # #additional packages that extend functionality of existing packages [Stream-centosplus] name=CentOS-Stream - Plus #mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=centosplus&infra=$infra baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/$contentdir/$stream/centosplus/$basearch/os/ gpgcheck=1 enabled=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-centosofficial
Just uncomment on the mirrorlist line, so it would be like this.
mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=centosplus&infra=$infra
Then save and exit on editing the file by clicking on ctrl+x and ctrl+y, then enter.
Now you can test to run the yum command to test if this works.
# yum update
Output:
[root@sdetectives sdetectives]# yum update CentOS-8 - AppStream 2.4 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:01 CentOS-8 - Base 3.7 kB/s | 3.8 kB 00:01 CentOS-8 - Extras 1.3 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:01 CentOS-Stream - AppStream 3.4 kB/s | 4.4 kB 00:01 CentOS-Stream - Base 3.8 kB/s | 3.8 kB 00:01 CentOS-Stream - Extras 1.7 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00 CentOS-Stream - Plus 1.4 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:01 CentOS-8 - Plus 1.9 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00 google-chrome 8.4 kB/s | 1.3 kB 00:00 Dependencies resolved. ================================================================================ Package Arch Version Repository Size ================================================================================ Installing: kernel x86_64 4.18.0-168.el8 Stream-BaseOS 2.7 M .... Upgrading: firefox x86_64 68.4.1-1.el8_1 AppStream 95 M ... Transaction Summary ================================================================================ Install 4 Packages Upgrade 138 Packages Total download size: 410 M Is this ok [y/N]:
