CentOS 8 installation: Error setting up base repository

As a follow-up to my previous article about CentOS 8 issues, I’d like to show how to fix a similar issue with a new CentOS 8 installation, namely, “Error setting up base repository”. I was setting up CentOS on a VMWare virtual machine, and here’s how the issue looked like:

The reason is, again, that the base repository was removed on January 31, 2022 due to end-of-life…