On Thursday 17 April 2008 15:25, seth vidal wrote: > 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? > as I said earlier, it just said 'nothing to install'. I'm getting nowhere with this. I had forgotten that even doing a localinstall checks the repos before starting. I can't get a network connection, so it can't get the lists, therefore I can't install. Isn't there any way around this? I have the bare kde disk install on there and I can't get any updates for it. Anne -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
