I have a VPS and i wanted to install some packages with yum. But for some reason i'm getting errors when i try to do that. I also have no idea how to fix this.

This is the error that i'm getting when i try to do a yum update. (I'm getting the same error for all yum commands)

I checked my resolv.conf file. It had the Google DNS in it 8.8.4.4 8.8.8.8, but i changed that to OpenDNS:
(that's all there is in resolv.conf).

I also tried:
yum clean all

It cleaned, but i still can't use yum to update or install anything...


Any other ideas that i could try??
Please bear in mind that i'm a complete newbie (so don't get to technical ) and i only have access to the terminal.

you've got some clear gaps in your troubleshooting there... who cares about yum if it's a DNS issue? Is DNS working? if you ping a remote site, does it resolve? then, what sites is yum trying to resolve? look in /etc/yum.repos.d/*

I forgot to add, but i tried to ping a site which didn't work. I also tried the host command and that didn't work either.

So that's probably the reason i can't access any mirrors, since i can't access any internet address at all...

right, so go fix that, and yum will work. Super.

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Anyway i obviously have no clue how to fix this, anyone else that can actually point me in the right direction?

so this is just basic network troubleshooting. can you ping your default gateway etc?

If you dont want to use Google's DNS, contact your admin or ISP to help you find your actual DNS server which can help you with name resolution as the one which you are using doesn't seems much helping in your case.

Or a long procedure is configure your own DNS

Or else continue with