How to download a file without installing?

[Chelban Vasile]

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


Of course, yumdownloader usage is preferred over yum-downloadonly.