Download RPM packages from a YUM repo without installing
This how-to will explain how to download rpm packages from a yum
repository without installing them. This will work on Redhat Enterprise Linux
5.x, Fedora and CentOS 5.x.
You need to install yum
plugin called yum-downloadonly. This plugin adds a --downloadonly flag to yum so
that yum can download the packages without installing/updating them. Following
options supported by this plugin:
- --downloadonly : don‘t update, just download a rpm file to default yum cache directory/var/cache/yum/.
- --downloaddir=/path/to/dir : specifies an alternate directory to store packages such as /tmp
Install the yum-downloadonly plugin:
Type the
following command to install plugin,
enter:
# yum install yum-downloadonly
Now for downloading rpm
packages from an already configured yum repository use the following
command:
# yum update httpd
-y --downloadonly
By default package will by
downloaded and stored in /var/cache/yum/ directory. But, you can specifies an
alternate directory to store packages such as /opt,
enter:
# yum update httpd -y
--downloadonly --downloaddir=/opt
Method
2: yum-utils.noarch Package
Downloading rpm
packages from a yum repository can be accomplished by the below described method
also!!!
yum-utils is a collection of utilities and examples
for the yum package manager. It includes utilities by different authors that
make yum easier and more powerful to use. These tools include:
debuginfo-install, package-cleanup, repoclosure, repodiff, repo-graph,
repomanage, repoquery, repo-rss, reposync, repotrack, verifytree, yum-builddep,
yum-complete-transaction, yumdownloader, yum-debug-dump and
yum-groups-manager.
# yum -y
install yum-utils.noarch
Now use the yumdownloader command
which is a program for downloading RPMs from Yum repositories. Type the
following command to download httpd rpm
file:
# yumdownloader
httpd
Sample
output:
Loaded plugins:
rhnplugin
httpd-2.2.3-31.el5_4.2.x86_64.rpm 1.2
MB 00:00
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