EPEL 7 links are dead... Where to find replacement?
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I am updating a project that relied on EPEL 7; up until this year, the following repo link worked just fine:
https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
This was the full rpm command I was using to enable it:
rpm -ivh --nosignature https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
However, that link now fails to download. When I try the URL myself, I get a 404 Page Not Found error.
This makes sense, EPEL 7 was deprecated, but in case the project cannot be upgraded to use EPEL 8, I still would like to have an EPEL 7 source available as a backup. If anyone has a link to such an archive of EPEL 7, once that I can install with RPM, that would be much appreciated.
I did find this on the official EPEL site:
https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/epel/7/
However, I cannot use that link directly, nor am I sure where/if they provide a full RPM package within.
The project is running Redhat 7.9 (yes I am aware this version is also outdated, the project requires it.) If EPEL 8 is supposed to be backwards compatible to Redhat 7.9, then maybe I will never have to use EPEL 7 again.
EDIT: As far as I can tell, EPEL 8 does require Redhat 8, so that is not an option for me.
Asked by Eliezer Miron
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Jan 10, 2025, 09:06 PM
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