How Do I just only download RPM Packages without installing them immediately under CentOS /RHEL/Fedora system? Sometimes, I just would like to download the packages using yum command and not install those matched packages in the YUM repositories. In this post, I will show you how to use yum download RPM packages:
CentOS Yum Download RPM Packages
Before I wrote a post about Yum installing package, you can find the below lines from the output of “yum install” command, then need your confirm if the installaion process will be continued. at this time, if you want to continue installation, then pressing “y”, if not ,pressing “N”. there is another option named “d”, what’s mean for this option? this option will control the installation process to only download the packages without installing them.
To download a RPM package named wget, type:
yum install wget
then pressing “d” option.
[root@devops Desktop]# yum install wget Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * base: mirrors.nwsuaf.edu.cn * extras: mirrors.nwsuaf.edu.cn * updates: mirrors.nwsuaf.edu.cn Resolving Dependencies --> Running transaction check ---> Package wget.x86_64 0:1.14-10.el7_0.1 will be installed --> Finished Dependency Resolution Dependencies Resolved ================================================================================ Package Arch Version Repository Size ================================================================================ Installing: wget x86_64 1.14-10.el7_0.1 updates 545 k Transaction Summary ================================================================================ Install 1 Package Total download size: 545 k Installed size: 2.0 M Is this ok [y/d/N]: d ======> press "d" Background downloading packages, then exiting: wget-1.14-10.el7_0.1.x86_64.rpm | 545 kB 00:10 exiting because "Download Only" specified
To check if the package is downloaded, type:
[root@devops Desktop]# find /var/cache -name wget* /var/cache/yum/x86_64/7/updates/packages/wget-1.14-10.el7_0.1.x86_64.rpm
By default, the downloaded packages via yum will be stored under “/var/cache/yum/$basearch/$releaserver/packages” directory.