yum install just downloads not install

[seth vidal]

On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 19:28 -0500, Lee Connell wrote:
> Sometimes when i use yum install "multiple packages" it will only download 
> the packages and not install them, i then have to run yum install "same 
> packages list" and it will install them from the disk that it downloaded 
> from last time.  Anyone else having this problem?

is it just exiting or prompting you then exiting?

if the former then set
keepalive=0 in [main] in your yum.conf and try it

if the latter then you're typing some extra garbage that you're not
seeing at the prompt

-sv