Error while trying to download httpd package

[saichandu]

[chandu@centos-8 ~]$ sudo yum install --downloadonly --downloaddir=/home/chandu/dir1 httpd
Config error: Parsing file "/etc/dnf/dnf.conf" failed: Parsing file '/etc/dnf/dnf.conf' failed: IniParser: Missing '=' at line 7


I am getting this error while trying to download only apache web server packages into specified folder. Can't find a proper solution in internet. I am a beginner and going through a linked course and stuck with this. Also tried replacing yum with dnf still the same. previously I downloaded successfully, but in course progress I think I messed with dnf.conf file.
Please suggest.

 

[dos2unix]

It does appear your dnf.conf file may be corrupted.

Hopefully you have a backup.

If you have the full install ISO (not the network install ISO)
you could extract it and copy the dnf-data rpm from your ISO.

If you have internet access, you could do a force re-install of

https://centos.pkgs.org/8/centos-baseos-x86_64/dnf-data-4.2.23-4.el8.noarch.rpm.html

 

[f33dm3bits]

Can you share what /etc/dnf/dnf.conf looks like?

cat /etc/dnf/dnf.conf

 

[saichandu]

It does appear your dnf.conf file may be corrupted.

Hopefully you have a backup.

If you have the full install ISO (not the network install ISO)
you could extract it and copy the dnf-data rpm from your ISO.

If you have internet access, you could do a force re-install of

https://centos.pkgs.org/8/centos-baseos-x86_64/dnf-data-4.2.23-4.el8.noarch.rpm.html

Thanks for the suggestion. I did recovered dnf.conf file from installation ISO. It helped.

 

[saichandu]

Can you share what /etc/dnf/dnf.conf looks like?

cat /etc/dnf/dnf.conf

Thanks for concern. As per above comment retrieved dnf.conf file from installation media.
It would be great help if you let me know the other ways around possible for the same in brief. Thanks again.

 

[f33dm3bits]

I'm not sure I understand what you are saying? I'm running Springdale Linux 8 on a system which is also a Rhel clone, make a backup of /etc/dnf/dnf.conf and replace it with this.

[main]
gpgcheck=1
installonly_limit=3
clean_requirements_on_remove=True
best=True
skip_if_unavailable=False