How to download a file without installing?

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams ivazqueznet at gmail.com
Thu Apr 17 14:38:07 UTC 2008


On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 22:29 +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
> 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.

yumdownloader --url system-config-network

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