Linux practice challenges cenntos8 app stream issue

tejbahadurmsingh · May 28, 2024, 6:23am

I got below error in Linux practice challenge

[bob@centos-host ~]$ sudo dnf install nginx
CentOS Stream 8 - AppStream 0.0 B/s | 0 B 00:00
Errors during downloading metadata for repository ‘appstream’:

Curl error (6): Couldn’t resolve host name for http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=8-stream&arch=x86_64&repo=AppStream&infra=stock [Could not resolve host: mirrorlist.centos.org]
[bob@centos-host ~]$

al1 · May 28, 2024, 9:22am

What happens if you run sudo dnf update first?

tejbahadurmsingh · May 28, 2024, 1:14pm

it gives the same error

al1 · May 28, 2024, 4:14pm

Do you have a link to the lab please?

tejbahadurmsingh · May 29, 2024, 12:11pm

below is a lab link

al1 · May 29, 2024, 12:54pm

The first task is:

Troubleshoot the issues with “yum/dnf” and make sure you are able to install the packages on “centos-host”.

Think about what would cause the repository to be unreachable.

tejbahadurmsingh · May 30, 2024, 1:03pm

sure, I’ll try to resolve that issue. I think I missed to know that task properly