[elrepo] Does Elrepo still support CentOS 6?

[Manuel Wolfshant]

On 6/29/21 5:16 PM, SHEEHAN Kelly wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for the reply.
>
> So I have downloaded and installed the following:
>
> elrepo-release-6-12.el6.elrepo.noarch.rpm 
> <http://elrepo.reloumirrors.net/elrepo/el6/x86_64/RPMS/elrepo-release-6-12.el6.elrepo.noarch.rpm>
>
> I then tried to install nvidia-detect using these methods:
>
> yum install $(nvidia-detect) – As per the Elrepo website
>
> and also
>
> yum install nvidia-detect
>
> Neither of these worked as it says there are no packages available.
>
> Do I have to go through another method to install this?
>

You need to edit /etc/yum.repos.d/elrepo.repo and modify the included 
URLs to make them point to an archive. They are no longer valid since 
support for EL6 was retired .

You can read about that at 
https://elrepo.org/linux/elrepo/el6/000README.txt as well.


Manuel


> Kind regards,
>
> Kelly
>
>
> *From:*elrepo-bounces at lists.elrepo.org 
> <elrepo-bounces at lists.elrepo.org> *On Behalf Of *Manuel Wolfshant
> *Sent:* 29 June 2021 14:16
> *To:* EL Repo General Mailing List <elrepo at lists.elrepo.org>
> *Subject:* [EXTERNAL EMAIL] Re: [elrepo] Does Elrepo still support 
> CentOS 6?
>
> On 6/29/21 3:53 PM, SHEEHAN Kelly wrote:
>
>     Hi there,
>
>     I am having great difficulty getting an Nvidia driver to install
>     on CentOS 6 and thus I wanted to use Elrepo. But when I use the
>     command below it says it can’t open the website:
>
>     yum install
>     https://www.elrepo.org/elrepo-release-6.el6.elrepo.noarch.rpm
>     <https://www.elrepo.org/elrepo-release-6.el6.elrepo.noarch.rpm>
>
>     So does Elrepo not support CentOS 6 anymore?
>
> Support for EL6 was retired after the distro was itself EOLed but you 
> can still find the packages in the elrepo archives
>

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