How to Disable yum fastestmirror plugin on CentOS

The fastestmirror plugin may be useful at some points, but it can be a problem some time too as it can effect your download speed and even some time will not allow you to install the application.

To disable fastestmirror plugin follow the steps below.

• SSH server as root user 

• vi  /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/fastestmirror.conf

• Search the line enabled=1 set it to enabled=0 save and exit.

*Note 0 is used to disable the plugin and 1 is used to enable the plugin.

yum update – TypeError: unsubscriptable object

 If you are getting the error like "TypeError: unsubscriptable object" while installing any software through YUM or while updating YUM follow the steps below.

SSH server

Run the below 3 commands and yum will be update and you will not get the error any more.

• yum clean metadata

• yum clean all

• yum update

Now you will not get any such error while Installing Application through YUM.