Remove All Repositories - CentOS (Can't Download Normal Stuff Anymore)

Question

Any time I do yum install ___, what used to be normally accessible is no longer so.

I think it is because of an installed repository causing the issue.

How do I remove all repositories?

Answer 1

Try cleaning yum.

clean [ packages | headers | metadata | cache | dbcache | all ]

Answer 2

Removing all of them is a bad idea. Try selectively disabling them using the --disablerepo= switch. You can use that switch multiple times to remove several repos, or you can combine it with the --enablerepo= to create a white list.

yum --disablerepo="*" --enablerepo="rpmforge" install blahblahblah

That'll enable only rpmforge.

Run yum repolist for a list of your repositories.