Question
How to solve this error with the yum and dnf commands? [Failed to download metadata for repo 'dovecot-2.3-latest']
- Posted on May 22, 2020
- CentOS 8Linux CommandsCentOS
Asked by mcastro05
Hi! Whenever I use the YUM or DNF command, I get the message below:
# yum update
DigitalOcean Agent 80 kB/s | 3.3 kB 00:00
Dovecot 2.3 CentOS 8 - x86_64 588 B/s | 162 B 00:00
Failed to download metadata for repo ‘dovecot-2.3-latest’
Error: Failed to download metadata for repo ‘dovecot-2.3-latest’
I use CentOS 8 with Open LightSpeed and CyberPanel.
I searched a lot on the internet, but I still couldn’t solve this problem. Can you help me?
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Hi @mcastro05,
It seems like it can’t find the latest dovecot repo. You can disable it on your server.
To disable the said repo, you can ssh to your droplet
Enter your repo’s folder, it’s
/etc/yum.repos.d/Now, there should be a dovecot-2.3 repo. Do an
lsand when you see it’s full name, open the file using a text editor. There you should see a couple of lines, one of which statesenabled=1, you can set that one to 0 and try to run youryum updatecommand once more.Regards, KDSys