CentOS 7 and CentOS 8 updated repo after its EOL Rumi, July 26, 2024February 23, 2025 For CentOS 7 mirrorlist.centos.org doesn’t exists anymore. So, your default repor wwith yum doesn’t work. Try using the following processes, it worked for me, hope this works for others as well. sed -i s/mirror.centos.org/vault.centos.org/g /etc/yum.repos.d/*.repo sed -i s/^#.*baseurl=http/baseurl=http/g /etc/yum.repos.d/*.repo sed -i s/^mirrorlist=http/#mirrorlist=http/g /etc/yum.repos.d/*.repo Ref: https://serverfault.com/questions/1161816/mirrorlist-centos-org-no-longer-resolve For CentOS 8 sed -i 's/^mirrorlist/#mirrorlist/g' /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-* sed -i 's|#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org|baseurl=http://vault.centos.org|g' /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-* Administrations Configurations (Linux) CentOS 7CentOS 7 Repo