Re: [CentOS] CentOS-7 on a USB stick

Timothy Murphy wrote:

I see now that it didn't install for other reasons:

[tim@alfred ~]$ sudo yum install livecd-iso-to-disk Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, refresh-packagekit, security Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile epel/metalink | 24 kB 00:00

• base: mirror.euserv.net
• epel: mirror.i3d.net
• extras: it.centos.contactlab.it
• rpmforge: nl.mirror.eurid.eu
• updates: mirrors.prometeus.net

epel | 3.7 kB 00:00 epel/primary_db | 2.0 MB 00:03 Error: xz compression not available

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I'm not sure what this means, or what I can do about it?

I see on googling that this was a problem with the epel repository. I'm not sure if I installed the CentOS-7 version by mistake, while I am currently running CentOS-6.5. (I'm upgrading to CentOS-7 bit-by-bit, hence the error.) On running sudo rm -rf /etc/yum.repos.d/epel* I was able to run yum normally.