YumRepo Error: All mirror URLs are not using ftp, http[s] or file

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I have set up a `centOS 6.5 server` using `VMWare Workstation 9` on a `Windows 8.1` host laptop. When trying to use `yum` to install packages I get the following error: ``` [root@localhost ~]# yum update Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile YumRepo Error: All mirror URLs are not using ftp, http[s] or file. Eg. / removing mirrorlist with no valid mirrors: /var/cache/yum/i386/6/base/mirrorlist.txt Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: base ``` The VM works on other machines (`Windows 7` desktop and an `Windows 8.1` laptop), just not the one I need it to work on. I am able to ping the host from the guest and the guest from the host, so there is a connection to the internet. I have uninstalled and reinstalled Workstation 9. Ungraded to workstation 10. Rebuilt the CentOS 6.5 server. Nothing seems to solve the issue. When I upgraded from Windows 8 to Windows 8.1, I had VMWare installed. I found out later that I should have uninstalled VMWare…

Accepted Answer

Be sure that you can ping vault.centos.org.

Then edit `/etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo`

Comment out `mirrorlist` and uncomment `baseurl`

Change all

```
baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/centosplus/$basearch/
```

to

```
baseurl=http://vault.centos.org/$releasever/centosplus/$basearch/
```

And enjoy your yum update!!! ;)

YumRepo Error: All mirror URLs are not using ftp, http[s] or file

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