Jerry Geis wrote:

Hi I am trying to grab some files with the command (as example) yum -y install vnc --downloadonly --downloaddir=/tmp

but it says the file is already installed. I know that, but I want to download it anyway and store it for later install on another machine (saving the download time later).

How do I tell yum to go ahead and download the file?

THanks,

Jerry

Use yumdowloader (from the yum-utils package)