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CentOS Installation fails – “Unable to read package metadata.”

Problem
CentOS installation fails with the message:
“Unable to read package metadata. This may be due to missing repodata directory. Please ensure that your install tree has been correctly generated”.

Solution 1
Add the corresponding repository server. In case of CentOS 6.5 64bit: http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6.5/os/x86_64/

Solution 2
See the following stackoverflow thread: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21637068/unable-to-read-package-metadata-this-may-be-due-to-missing-repodata-directory

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One response to “CentOS Installation fails – “Unable to read package metadata.””

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    Some Body

    The address has changed, after a little googling, you can find 6.6 here

    http://mirror.centos.org/centos-6/6.6/os/x86_64/

    and the now depricated 6.5 here

    http://vault.centos.org/6.5/os/x86_64/

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