On 2/24/23 9:18 PM, Tim via users wrote:
On Fri, 2023-02-24 at 23:33 -0500, Robert McBroom via users wrote:
Installed CentOS8 on a VM from
CentOS-8.1.1911-x86_64-dvd1.iso
Trying to update it gives
Failed to download metadata for repo 'appstream'
Error: Failed to download metadata for repo 'appstream'
You're really posting on the wrong list for CentOS, but CentOS 8 went
end-of-life in December 2022. They'll probably remove various CentOS 8
files from their servers.
If you want to use a CentOS that is still being updated, you can use
CentOS 7 until mid 2024 (it goes end-of-life in June). And there's
CentOS Stream which is not going end-of-life, but I don't use it, and
don't know anything further about it.
I've yet to decide what to do about it, I run a server on it because
Fedora's life cycle is way too short for my liking. I really don't
want such rapid major upheavals to a server.
There are several newer distros that picked up where CentOS 8 left off.
Take a look at AlmaLinux (https://almalinux.org/) or Rocky Linux
(https://rockylinux.org/) -- both sourced from upstream RHEL and are
100% binary/bug-for-bug compatible with RHEL. They even provide easy
migration tools from CentOS.
Scott
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