Repository URL: http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora-epel/7/x86_64/ You will likely get the following error (/var/log/rhn/reposync/epel_rhel7_x86_64.log [root@rh6sat5 reposync]# tail -f epel_rhel7_x86_64.log Sync started: Fri May 22 18:58:00 2015 ['/usr/bin/spacewalk-repo-sync', '--channel', 'epel_rhel7_x86_64', '--type', 'yum', ''] Repo URL: http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora-epel/7/x86_64/ ERROR: xz compression not available Sync completed. Total time: 0:00:03 So - to fix this, do the following... yum -y install http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora-epel/epel-release-latest-6.noarch.rpm cd /etc/yum.repos.d/ sed -i -e 's/enabled=1/enabled=0/g' epel.repo yum --enablerepo epel list pyliblzma To resolve the mess from above... yum remove pyliblzma && yum --enablerepo epel -y install pyliblzma
Linux: The whole world made it for you... This blog is a collection of things I come across either at home or at work as a Linux Administrator. I have worked as an Admin working with Solaris, SAN, Backups and Linux at the Enterprise level for over 16 years.