How to download a file without installing?

[Anne Wilson]

On Thursday 17 April 2008 03:05:00 pm Chelban Vasile wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
> > I've browsed the yum commands, but don't see any way to download the file
> > to this computer so that I can transfer it to the laptop.  Can yum do
> > this, or do I have to look for it some other way?
>
> yum install yum-downloadonly
> yum --downloadonly --downloaddir=/home/vasile/Desktop/  install packagename
>
That just brought me the options list :-(

yum --downloadonly --downloaddir=/home/anne/Desktop/ 
system-config-network-1.5.5

>
> Of course, yumdownloader usage is preferred over yum-downloadonly.

That didn't help either.

Anne