Re: download package with Yum.- goofed

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam sbcglobal net>]

On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 10:03 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 00:59 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > Mark Haney wrote:
> > > Okay, call me stupid, but what happened to the ability to use yum to 
> > > download a binary package and NOT install it at that time?  I've got a 
> > > funky gnome-python2 update that I need to re-install the package, but I 
> > > don't want to remove 25 dependencies and then re-install them for this 
> > > one package.  If the '--download-only' option is gone, is there another 
> > > I can't find?
> > 
> > yumdownloader which is part of yum-utils. If you want to downgrade at 
> > the same time there are a couple of plugins in Fedora Extras.
> > 
> > Rahul
> > 
> I assumed from what you said that I could get yum-utils by running:
> yum install yum-utils
> 
> That does not work in FC6. What have I done wrong?
What I had done wrong is that I had already installed it previously.
Sorry for the goof.
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Aaron Konstam tel: (210) 656-0355 akonstam sbcglobal net