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…
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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