yumdownloader

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Updated: 2005 Nov 28
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NAME

yumdownloader  

SYNOPSIS

yumdownloader [options] package1 [package2...]  

DESCRIPTION

yumdownloader is a program for downloading RPMs from Yum repositories.

 

GENERAL OPTIONS

-h, --help
Help; display a help message and then quit.
--destdir DIR
Specify a destination directory for the download. Defaults to the current directory.
--urls
Instead of downloading RPMs, list the URLs that would be downloaded.
--resolve
When downloading RPMs, resolve dependencies and also download the required packages.
--source
Instead of downloading the binary RPMs, download the source RPMs.
 

ADDITIONAL OPTIONS

Yumdownloader inherits all other options from yum. See the yum(8) man page for more information

 

EXAMPLES

Download the kernel RPM to /var/tmp:
yumdownloader --destdir /var/tmp kernel
List the URL for the kernel and kernel-smp RPMs:
yumdownloader --urls kernel kernel-smp

 

FILES

As yumdownloader uses YUM libraries for retrieving all the information, it relies on YUM configuration for its default values like which repositories to use. Consult YUM documentation for details:

/etc/yum.conf
/etc/yum/repos.d/
/var/cache/yum/

 

SEE ALSO

yum.conf (5)
http://yum.baseurl.org/

 

AUTHORS

See the Authors file included with this program.

 

BUGS

There of course aren't any bugs, but if you find any, they should be sent to the mailing list: yum@lists.baseurl.org or filed in trac.