Re: [CentOS] enable repo download and save but no install

Jerry Geis wrote:

Is there a way to enable a repo, and ask it to download a package and all dependencies and save these files to a given directory then some time later execute a command to install those files that were saved.

Is that possible?

Yes.

"yum deplist vlc" shows you all dependencies. Do some grep/awk magic to write the package names which you find in the "Provider:" lines into a file. echo vlc >> file.

Then do a "yum install --downloadonly $(cat file)"

Maybe you should clean up the deplist a tad, as it contains packages you probably already have installed (like zlib or glibc).

I'm not concerned about updates to this package.

If that vlc ever plays streams from the internet, I would be concerned.

Ralph