No Presto metadata available for base Error downloading packages:

linux perl centos7
srinath picture srinath · May 4, 2016 · Viewed 29.1k times · Source

Whenever I am trying to download

perl-ExtUtils-ParseXS-3.18-2.el7 RPM for noarch (or) 

 yum install CPAN […]

Or

 yum install perl-ExtUtils-Embed...

Or any other package in CentOS.

It is seeing for dependencies then asking for confirmation (y) to download I am getting the below error:

No Presto metadata available for base

And trying for the mirror and getting the below message:

Error Downloading Packages.

Answer

Hitsa picture Hitsa · Jun 22, 2016

Try running:

sudo yum clean all

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