Why does my attempt to install Git on RHEL returns a 404 error?

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I am trying to install Git in my RHEL but failed. I have also cleaned up metadata and everything else by running sudo yum clean metadata and sudo yum clean all but still, the error persists again and again. Trying for the forth time now. I also have checked the network, yes, my network is fine. My firewall? Error code bash-4.1$ sudo yum install git Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, refresh-packagekit, security Setting up Install Process Repository...

Originally asked by the Killerx on Stack Exchange (superuser) (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

Take a look at the url http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6//repodata/repomd.xml . Notice anything missing? In between those two slashes should be your architecture. Take a look at the file /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo On my RHEL 7 machine it looks like this [epel] name=Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 7 - $basearch baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/$basearch mirrorlist=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=epel-7&arch=$basearch failovermethod=priority enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 priority=2 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-7 Make sure that there's a $basearch at the end of the baseurl and mirrorlist entries. If it's there then something's gone wrong...

Full answer by Akinos: https://superuser.stackexchange.com/a/931837 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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