How to download a file without installing?

[John Summerfield]

Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Thursday 17 April 2008 02:54:22 pm Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> Anne Wilson wrote:
>>> I have a bug report open regarding the PCMCIA card in my old laptop.  I'm
>>> told that system-config-network-1.5.5 should fix it, but of course
>>> without the card working I have no connection.
>>>
>>> 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-utils
>> # yumdownloader <foo>
>>
> Hmm - problem.  It's already installed on this box, so it tells me that 
> there's nothing to download.

Does yum have it cached?

If you know where the package is, wget can fetch it for you. For 
directory listings, I like lynx.


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