CentOS 6 has reached its end of life (EOL), and the Linux community no longer maintains this operating system version. We recommend that you upgrade your operating system to CentOS 7 or later. If you still require some of the installation packages of CentOS 6 during the transition, you can change the CentOS 6 source address for your images as instructed in this topic.

Background information

CentOS 6 has reached its EOL on November 30, 2020. In accordance with the community rules of Linux, the content at the source address http://mirror.centos.org/centos-6/ of CentOS 6 has been removed. All third-party image providers have already removed the CentOS 6 source address. The http://mirrors.cloud.aliyuncs.com and http://mirrors.aliyun.com source addresses of Alibaba Cloud cannot synchronize with the CentOS 6 source address. If you continue to use the default CentOS 6 source address on Alibaba Cloud, an error is reported. The following figure shows an example of the error.centos 6 error
You can perform the following procedure to change the source address configurations in the ECS instances that run CentOS 6 operating system based on the network environment.
  • YUM repository
    • For VPC-type instances, you must change the source address of YUM repository to http://mirrors.cloud.aliyuncs.com/centos-vault/6.10/.
    • For classic network-type instances, you must change the source address of YUM repository to http://mirrors.aliyuncs.com/centos-vault/6.10/.
  • EPEL repository
    • For VPC-type instances, you must change the source address of EPEL repository to http://mirrors.cloud.aliyuncs.com/epel-archive/6/.
    • For classic network-type instances, you must change the source address of EPEL repository to http://mirrors.aliyuncs.com/epel-archive/6/.
Note This topic describes how to change the CentOS 6 source address in ECS instances. If your server is not an ECS instance, make sure that the server is accessible from the Internet and that the http://mirrors.cloud.aliyuncs.com source address is replaced with http://mirrors.aliyun.com. For example, if you change the source address of a YUM repository, replace the source address with http://mirrors.aliyun.com/centos-vault/6.10/. If you change the source address of EPEL repository, replace the source address with http://mirrors.aliyun.com/epel-archive/6/.

Procedure

  1. Connect to an ECS instance that runs CentOS 6.
    For more information, see Overview.
  2. Run the following command to modify the CentOS-Base.repo file:
    vim /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo
  3. Press the I key to enter the edit mode. Modify the following content to change the source address.
    Modify the file based on the network type of the instance.
    • VPC
      [base]
name=CentOS-6.10
enabled=1
failovermethod=priority
baseurl=http://mirrors.cloud.aliyuncs.com/centos-vault/6.10/os/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://mirrors.cloud.aliyuncs.com/centos-vault/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-6

[updates]
name=CentOS-6.10
enabled=1
failovermethod=priority
baseurl=http://mirrors.cloud.aliyuncs.com/centos-vault/6.10/updates/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://mirrors.cloud.aliyuncs.com/centos-vault/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-6

[extras]
name=CentOS-6.10
enabled=1
failovermethod=priority
baseurl=http://mirrors.cloud.aliyuncs.com/centos-vault/6.10/extras/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://mirrors.cloud.aliyuncs.com/centos-vault/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-6
    • Classic network
      [base]
name=CentOS-6.10
enabled=1
failovermethod=priority
baseurl=http://mirrors.aliyuncs.com/centos-vault/6.10/os/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://mirrors.aliyuncs.com/centos-vault/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-6

[updates]
name=CentOS-6.10
enabled=1
failovermethod=priority
baseurl=http://mirrors.aliyuncs.com/centos-vault/6.10/updates/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://mirrors.aliyuncs.com/centos-vault/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-6

[extras]
name=CentOS-6.10
enabled=1
failovermethod=priority
baseurl=http://mirrors.aliyuncs.com/centos-vault/6.10/extras/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://mirrors.aliyuncs.com/centos-vault/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-6

    After you modify the file, press the Esc key to exit the edit mode and enter :wq to save and exit the file.

  4. Run the following command to edit the epel.repo file:
    vim /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo
  5. Press the I key to enter the edit mode. Modify the following content to change the source address.
    Modify the file based on the network type of the instance.
    • VPC
      [epel]
name=Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 6 - $basearch
enabled=1
failovermethod=priority
baseurl=http://mirrors.cloud.aliyuncs.com/epel-archive/6/$basearch
gpgcheck=0
gpgkey=http://mirrors.cloud.aliyuncs.com/epel-archive/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-6
    • Classic network
      [epel]
name=Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 6 - $basearch
enabled=1
failovermethod=priority
baseurl=http://mirrors.aliyuncs.com/epel-archive/6/$basearch
gpgcheck=0
gpgkey=http://mirrors.aliyuncs.com/epel-archive/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-6

    After you modify the file, press the Esc key to exit the edit mode and enter :wq to save and exit the file.

  6. After you change the repository, run the yum intall command to install the required software packages.