[CentOS] yum download

Mon Nov 24 17:52:37 UTC 2008
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com>

Robert Moskowitz wrote:

>> Can I just download an rpm from a repo without installing it?
>>
>> I don't see anything like yum download or yum install --downonly 
> I just figured out how to get firefox to show me the RPMS directory in 
> the online repo and then did a save link as. This worked for this time....

You won't like that when you run into an rpm with a lot of dependencies. 
  Just 'yum install yum-downloadonly', then
'yum --downloadonly packagename'.

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   Les Mikesell
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