Enable Centos 6 EOL repos
Created: 2021-05-03 02:16:53 | Last modified: 2021-05-03 02:20:52
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Now that Centos 6 has become end of life, yum no longer works. Process to use archive repos.
Now that Centos 6 has become EOL, you will find that yum no longer works. If you still are running an older version of Centos and still need to use the yum packages to install new or update existing packages, you can use the Centos vault repos.
Update Yum
Copy and paste the following into your command shell to enable the vault repos. This will update your existing /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo
cat <<-'EOF' > /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo
[C6.10-base]
name=CentOS-6.10 - Base
baseurl=http://vault.centos.org/6.10/os/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-6
enabled=1
metadata_expire=never
[C6.10-updates]
name=CentOS-6.10 - Updates
baseurl=http://vault.centos.org/6.10/updates/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-6
enabled=1
metadata_expire=never
[C6.10-extras]
name=CentOS-6.10 - Extras
baseurl=http://vault.centos.org/6.10/extras/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-6
enabled=1
metadata_expire=never
[C6.10-contrib]
name=CentOS-6.10 - Contrib
baseurl=http://vault.centos.org/6.10/contrib/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-6
enabled=0
metadata_expire=never
[C6.10-centosplus]
name=CentOS-6.10 - CentOSPlus
baseurl=http://vault.centos.org/6.10/centosplus/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-6
enabled=0
metadata_expire=never
EOF
