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As announced by CentOS.org the CentOS Linux 8 has reached End Of Life (EOL) on December 31st, 2021. 

This means that CentOS 8 will not receive any updates, either nomal bug fixes or fixes for security vulnerabilities.

Instructions to convert from the CentOS Linux 8 distribution to CentOS Stream 8 published at Q7: How do I migrate my CentOS Linux 8 installation to CentOS Stream? DO NOT WORK as the repositories for CentOS 8 where moved to vault.centos.org.

We are advising you to use the following comands:


# Become root
$ sudo su -

# Update the CentOS 8 repositories:
$ for k in $(ls /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Linux-*.repo); do sudo sed -e 's/^mirrorlist=/#mirrorlist=/' -e 's/#baseurl=http:\/\/mirror/baseurl=http:\/\/vault/' -i $k; done

# Update to the latest version of CentOS 8 & reboot
$ sudo dnf update
$ sudo shutdown -r now

# Install CentOS Stream packages repositories 
$ sudo dnf in centos-release-stream

# Migrate from CentOS 8 to CentOS Stream 8 & reboot
$ sudo dnf swap centos-linux-repos centos-stream-repos
$ sudo dnf distro-sync
$ sudo shutdown -r now


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