On Fri, 04 Aug 2017 20:35:32 +0200, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> Am 04.08.2017 um 19:01 schrieb Beartooth:
>>
>> I have a woefully dumb question. When I tell my wife's laptop,
>> with CentOS 7 installed and a live ethernet cable plugged into it, "yum
>> update," it fails saying that it doesn't see any repos. What do I need
>> to do to?
>
> Without a precise error messge (copy & paste what is printed out) it is
> hard to judge.
>
> rpm -V centos-release
>
> If that command does not print out anything then the default CentOS repo
> definitions are there and set. I then would guess the laptop does not
> have internet connectivity. Validate that
>
> ip a s
>
> prints out a valid network address. And that
>
> ip r s
>
> has a valid route to reach the internet.
>
> Is any internet address like www.google.com reachable from the system?
>
> Alexander
This is very helpful. I'm old and slow, and it may take me a
while, but many many thanks!
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