This Tip will Guide you through the Way to follow for to Download Only All the Packages Involved in a Yum Installation.
This Process is Valid for All the Yum Based Distros like Red Hat, CentOS, Fedora Core, Oracle Linux…
YUM Download Only the Package With All Dependencies
May 5, 2012 | By Regaz.-
To Enable the Yum Plugin needed on Terminal:
sudo su
If Got “User is Not in Sudoers file” then see: How to Enable sudo
sudo yum install yum-plugin-downloadonly
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To Download a Package and All his Dependencies in One:
For an Installing Package Process.
sudo yum install packagename -y --downloadonly
For an Downloading Package Process.
yum update packagename -y --downloadonly
All the Packages Downloaded are Distributed in Multiple Directories inside the /var/cache/yum/Directory.
To Store them in an Isolated and Easier to List Location you have to Set the Download Directory with:
sudo yum install packagename -y --downloadonly --downloaddir=/path/To/Directory
