How to download a file without installing?

[Anne Wilson]

On Friday 18 April 2008 17:34:05 Anne Wilson wrote:
> Unfortunately none of these methods were successful.  Adding '3' didn't
> boot to level 3!  The method involving ftp to a mirror is out - I don't
> have a connection.  Using Ctrl-Alt-F1 gives me a terminal and I tried the
> yum command from there.  It said it couldn't retrieve the mirrorlist, and
> couldn't retrieve repository metadata.  Attempting to install from a
> graphical file manager says that local installs are not supported.  End of
> road, I'm afraid.
>
> BTW Ctrl-Alt-F7 doesn't do anything.

It occurs to me that the one thing I haven't tried is an rpm install.  I'll 
try that tomorrow.

Anne
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