I'm trying to install a package on a old Fedora 20 virtual machine.
yum install
<the_package_name>
results in a failure with an HTTP 403 error:
http://download.fedoraproject.org/<...(truncated)...>/repomd.xml:
[Errno 14] HTTP Error 403 - Forbidden
My web-browser can't see anything at http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/updates/20
so I realize FC20 is no more supported (EOL) and its repository URL has changed. So I fix the baseurl in /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo
to look like this:
baseurl=http://archives.fedoraproject.org/<...(truncated)...>
I'm sure the URL is now correct, because I can download repomd.xml
using curl
or wget
, and access it in my web browser...
But yum install <the_package_name>
continues to fail with an HTTP 403 error! It can't access repomd.xml
at the correct URL:
http://archives.fedoraproject.org/<...(truncated)...>/repomd.xml:
[Errno 14] HTTP Error 403 - Forbidden
Can you help me overcome this issue and install packages on this old Fedora (FC 20)?
Note 1: I'm working from behind a proxy (not my choice).
Note 2: Upgrading my Fedora 20 to Fedora 21 or 22 is not an option either.
Here are the suggestions (from Etan Reisner) that helped me solve the issue:
Check the proxy configuration in /etc/yum.conf
Check all YUM .repo files are using the up-to-date Fedora repo URL
Launch yum clean metadata
to ensure YUM uses the updated .repo files contents
Try again yum install <the_package>