How to download a file without installing?

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 15:25 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Thursday 17 April 2008 03:05:00 pm Chelban Vasile wrote:
> > Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > I've browsed the yum commands, but don't see any way to download the file
> > > to this computer so that I can transfer it to the laptop.  Can yum do
> > > this, or do I have to look for it some other way?
> >
> > yum install yum-downloadonly
> > yum --downloadonly --downloaddir=/home/vasile/Desktop/  install packagename
> >
> That just brought me the options list :-(
> 
> yum --downloadonly --downloaddir=/home/anne/Desktop/ 
> system-config-network-1.5.5
> 
> >
> > Of course, yumdownloader usage is preferred over yum-downloadonly.
> 
> That didn't help either.

why didn't yumdownloader help?

-sv