Downloading an RPM package with Yum

If there is ever an occasion where you need to download a package but not install it, then this can be achieved with Yum. However, to begin this process, you need to ensure that your system maintains the following utility:

# yum install yum-plugin-downloadonly

In most cases, it may already be installed (as it forms part of the yum-utils package mentioned previously), but having completed this task (or confirmed that it is already present), you can simply download the required package to a directory of your choice by customizing the following command:

# yum install <package_name> --downloadonly --downloaddir=/path/to/folder

For example, and to make sense of the the preceding command, you can download Samba and all of its dependencies to a user-based directory by typing:

# yum install samba --downloadonly --downloaddir=/home/username

Alternatively, you can also invoke the following variation, although this version of the command will assume that the...