Missing or Corrupt Yum Repository for Symantec Mobility Suite

Products

• Mobility Suite

Issue/Introduction

Symantec Mobility Suite cannot finish installing necessary packages from the yum repository because the repository is either missing or has been replaced by an in-house RPM list.

Installation failed

Cause

Missing or modified /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo

Resolution

1. Copy the attached CentOS-Base.repo to the following directory on the CentOS 6.x machine:
/etc/yum.repos.d/
2. As root run the following command to remove the old yum database:
#sudo rm -f /var/lib/rpm/_db*
3. Rebuilt the yum database, as root run:
#rpm --rebuilddb
4. Next, clean any remaining data from the old repository with the following:
#yum clean all
5. Restart the Symantec Mobility Suite installation

 

Applies To

CentOS 6.4 - 6.6
Symantec Mobility Suite 5.0 and later