Solved: Repodata is over 2 weeks old ?

Today we will look one of the most common error message.

Lets have a look at the error message and its solution.

I. Error Message

[user@ngelinux001 ~]$ yum search nvidia
Loaded plugins: aliases, changelog, kabi, langpacks, product-id, search-disabled-repos, subscription-manager, tmprepo, verify,
: versionlock
Loading support for Red Hat kernel ABI
Repodata is over 2 weeks old. Install yum-cron? Or run: yum makecache fast
==================================================== N/S matched: nvidia =====================================================
nvidia-kmod.x86_64 : NVIDIA driver kernel modules
pcp-pmda-nvidia-gpu.x86_64 : Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) metrics for the Nvidia GPU
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia.x86_64 : NVIDIA's proprietary display driver for NVIDIA graphic cards
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-devel.x86_64 : Development files for xorg-x11-drv-nvidia
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-gl.x86_64 : GL libraries for xorg-x11-drv-nvidia
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.x86_64 : Libraries for xorg-x11-drv-nvidia
xorg-x11-drv-nouveau.x86_64 : Xorg X11 nouveau video driver for NVIDIA graphics chipsets
Name and summary matches only, use "search all" for everything.

[user@ngelinux001 ~]$ yum search all | grep -i nvidia
Repodata is over 2 weeks old. Install yum-cron? Or run: yum makecache fast

 

II. Solution

[user@ngelinux001 ~]$ yum makecache fast
Loaded plugins: aliases, changelog, kabi, langpacks, product-id, search-disabled-repos, subscription-manager, tmprepo, verify,
: versionlock
Loading support for Red Hat kernel ABI
Repodata is over 2 weeks old. Install yum-cron? Or run: yum makecache fast
cuda-9-0-local | 2.5 kB 00:00:00
rh7-server-extras-rpms | 2.9 kB 00:00:00
rh7-updates-Workstation | 3.0 kB 00:00:00
rh7-updates-Workstation-optional | 2.9 kB 00:00:00
rh7-updates-Workstation/primary_db | 60 MB 00:00:00
Metadata Cache Created
[user@ngelinux001 ~]$

 

III. Trick if that also does not work
In case this trick also does not work, then we can remove the complete yum cache and let it create again.

# rm -rf /var/cache/yum/*

# Now run yum repolist to get it created again.
# yum repolist
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