[elrepo] Error in downloading metadata

[Akemi Yagi]

On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 10:23 AM Roy Hogan <rehogan55 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I am trying to configure the elrepo repository in “dnf”  and am getting an error “Error: Failed to download metadata for repo ‘elrepo.org’
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> I am running Centos 8 and followed the directions on the elrepo homepage to import the public key and to install ELRepo.
>
> In configuring, dnf to add the ELRepo repository, I used the following two commands:
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> dnf config-manager --add-repo https://www.elrepo.org
> dnf config-manage  --set-enabled https://www.elrepo.org
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> for all the dnf commands, I get the error above…   Any advice is appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>
> Roy  Hogan

Because you are running CentOS-8, the following command should work to
install the elrepo repo:

dnf install elrepo-release

Akemi