How to use fedora archive site

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my PC is 32bit, i have to use old fedora 25

package manager doesn’t work, it can’t be started
i want package manager to use archives.fedoraproject.org/

please help me!

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Thank Vladislav Grigoryev!

error occurs when i run yum ex:

g-io-error-quark: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Python.dnf.exceptions.RepoError: Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/dnf/repo.py", line 226, in perform
    return super(_Handle, self).perform(result)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/librepo/__init__.py", line 1506, in perform
    _librepo.Handle.perform(self, result)
librepo.LibrepoException: (19, 'Cannot download repomd.xml: Cannot download repodata/repomd.xml: All mirrors were tried', 'Usable URL not found')

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:


Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/dnf/repo.py", line 835, in load
    self._handle_load(handle)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/dnf/repo.py", line 590, in _handle_load
    return self._handle_load_core(handle)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/dnf/repo.py", line 603, in _handle_load_core
    result = handle.perform()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/dnf/repo.py", line 230, in perform
    raise _DetailedLibrepoError(exc, source)
dnf.repo._DetailedLibrepoError

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/dbus/service.py", line 707, in _message_cb
    retval = candidate_method(self, *args, **keywords)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/dnfdaemon/server/__init__.py", line 83, in newFunc
    rc = func(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/share/dnfdaemon/dnfdaemon-system", line 207, in SetConfig
    rc = self.set_option(setting, value)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/dnfdaemon/server/__init__.py", line 680, in set_option
    if hasattr(self.base.conf, option):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/dnfdaemon/server/__init__.py", line 202, in base
    self._get_base()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/dnfdaemon/server/__init__.py", line 1054, in _get_base
    self._base.setup_base()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/dnfdaemon/server/backend.py", line 69, in setup_base
    self.fill_sack()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/dnf/base.py", line 239, in fill_sack
    self._add_repo_to_sack(r)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/dnf/base.py", line 111, in _add_repo_to_sack
    repo.load()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/dnf/repo.py", line 847, in load
    raise dnf.exceptions.RepoError(msg)
dnf.exceptions.RepoError: Failed to synchronize cache for repo 'updates'
 (36)

below is my /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo

[fedora]
name=Fedora $releasever - $basearch
failovermethod=priority
baseurl=http://archives.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/$releasever/Everything/$basearch/os/
#metalink=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-$releasever&arch=$basearch
enabled=1
metadata_expire=7d
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-$releasever-$basearch
skip_if_unavailable=False

[fedora-debuginfo]
name=Fedora $releasever - $basearch - Debug
failovermethod=priority
baseurl=http://archives.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/$releasever/Everything/$basearch/debug/
#metalink=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-debug-$releasever&arch=$basearch
enabled=0
metadata_expire=7d
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-$releasever-$basearch
skip_if_unavailable=False

[fedora-source]
name=Fedora $releasever - Source
failovermethod=priority
baseurl=http://archives.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/$releasever/Everything/source/tree/
#metalink=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-source-$releasever&arch=$basearch
enabled=0
metadata_expire=7d
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-$releasever-$basearch
skip_if_unavailable=False
4 
sudo sed -i -r -e "
/^metalink=/s/^/#/
/^#*baseurl=/{s/^#//
s%download.(fedoraproject.org|example)\
%archives.fedoraproject.org%
s%(/pub)(/fedora/)%\1/archive\2%}
" /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora*.repo
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