How to Fix "Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo" in CentOS | Linux Today

How to Fix “Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo” in CentOS

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Aaron Kili
Jul 24, 2019

Tecmint: One of the commonest errors CentOS users encounter when using YUM package manager (for example running yum update command), especially on a freshly installed system is the ???Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: base/7/x86_64???. In this short article, we will show how to fix “cannot find a valid baseurl for repo” error in CentOS Linux distribution.

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Aaron Kili

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