[Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 7 - "couldn't connect to host"

[cntsuser0011]

Hi. It's been days since I installed centos on my laptop. I'm having a lot of difficulties. I can't install utorrent, libreoffice, and other apps that I need. Because of errors like this:

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http://dl.atrpms.net/el6-x86_64/atrpms/stable/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 7 - "couldn't connect to host"
Trying other mirror.
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: atrpms. Please verify its path and try again

Question: Why does this happen? Please explain it to me and help me install Libreoffice. Thank you.

[TrevorH]

That's an error caused by the inaccessability of the website for one of your third party yum repositories - atrpms. That repo is very unreliable and this is the third or fourth time this year that it's just disappeared off the face of the planet. My advice, find a better repo for whatever it was that you added it for - nux-dextop is way better and also has backup mirrors to stop things like this from happening.