title: yumdownloader and yum-downloadonly link: https://onemoretech.wordpress.com/2011/02/25/yumdownloader-and-yum-downloadonly/ author: lembobro description: post_id: 65 created: 2011/02/25 10:48:30 created_gmt: 2011/02/25 10:48:30 comment_status: open post_name: yumdownloader-and-yum-downloadonly status: publish post_type: post

yumdownloader and yum-downloadonly

That's right, a couple of packages that let you download packages using yum instead of installing or upgrading them. Nice article on Nixcraft entitled How To Download a RPM Package Using yum Command Without Installing On Linux giving the full scoop.

The simpler of the two is the **yumdownloader** utility, provided by **yum-utils**. Install that with:

yum install yum-utils

Using it is as easy as:

yumdownloader perl-ldap

This downloads to your present working directory (pwd).

A bit more flexible is **yum-downloadonly**, install by executing:

yum install yum-downloadonly

Then you’re ready to go.

For example:

 yum update perl-ldap -y --downloadonly

This will download to default directory, /var/cache/yum. To specify a different location:

yum update httpd -y --downloadonly --downloaddir=/var/tmp

Another neat trick the article relates is something I’d forgotten: how to extract a package contents.

rpm2cpio httpd-2.2.3-31.el5_4.2.x86_64.rpm | cpio -idmv

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