1) tried the cent os6x64 a couple weeks ago and did not go right (and yes bought the manual) 2) I can not post links, to all http/ = XXXX-- Last eve, I said "to heck with it" and reloaded CentOS 7 started > The Perfect Server – CentOS 7 (Apache2, Dovecot, ISPConfig 3) All was going well until? 7 Enable Additional Repositories And Install Some Software I ran > rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY* And it popped right back to shell prompt Then > Then we enable the EPEL repository on our CentOS system as lots of the packages that we are going to install in the course of this tutorial are not available in the official CentOS 7 repository: RESULT = [root@kansas ~]# rpm -ivh XXXX--dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/x86_64/e/epel-release-7-2.noarch.rpm Retrieving XXXX--dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/x86_64/e/epel-release-7-2.noarch.rpm curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found error: skipping XXXX--dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/x86_64/e/epel-release-7-2.noarch.rpm - transfer failed
Centos has removed the 7.2 package for epel and uploaded a new 7.5 version since the tutorial was written, thats why you got a 404 error. Use this command instead to install it: rpm -ivh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/x86_64/e/epel-release-7-5.noarch.rpm