CentOS 6: End Of Life (EOL)

If you are using CentOS 6 on our Cloud VMs, you should note that the operating system went End of Life (EOL) on 30th November 2020.

The vendor will no longer be supporting that version of the operating system, as a result they will not be publishing updates for the system and as a consequence will not be providing bug/security fixes.

This may also effect updates for other software that is installed on the server - including the likes of Plesk and cPanel hosting control panels, and it is likely that the vendors of the respective software may not provide updates to address issues on the End of Life operating system.

Considering the above, it is highly advised that you work towards migrating to a newer operating system/Cloud VM as it would not be practical to upgrade the operating system in-place as it is likely you will run into issues attempting to do so.

Ability to install CentOS6 Packages

In order to continue installing packages from the repository, you will need to change the contents of the "CentOS-Base.repo" file on the server.

You should be mindful that this is an interim solution and is at-your-own-risk entirely: we cannot offer support for the operating system and related software once it has gone End of Life.

The file you need to change is located here on the server:

/etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo

You should take a copy of the original before changing the contents with the following:

[base]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Base
#mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=os&infra=$infra
baseurl=http://vault.centos.org/centos/$releasever/os/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-6

[updates]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Updates
#mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=updates&infra=$infra
baseurl=http://vault.centos.org/centos/$releasever/updates/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-6

[extras]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Extras
#mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=extras&infra=$infra
baseurl=http://vault.centos.org/centos/$releasever/extras/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
enabled=0
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-6

[centosplus]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Plus
#mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=centosplus&infra=$infra
baseurl=http://vault.centos.org/centos/$releasever/centosplus/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
enabled=0
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-6

[contrib]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Contrib
#mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=contrib&infra=$infra
baseurl=http://vault.centos.org/centos/$releasever/contrib/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
enabled=0
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-6