24052023, 13:05 How to Download RPM Packages Without Installing on RHEL 8 How to Download RPM Packages Without Installing on RHEL 8 Published on: February 20, 2022 by Pradeep Antil DNF is a package management command line utility on RHEL distributions like Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS Stream and Fedora. Usually, DNF or Yum command is used to install, update and remove rpm packages from command line. Apart from this, dnf can also be used to download packages locally on the system without installing. In this ‘guide, we will learn how to download rpm packages without installing them on RHEL 8. Note: There are some setups where we don’t have internet connectivity on RHEL systems, but we have a task to install some packages, may be from some external repository like EPEL. So, in this situation, downloading RPM packages becomes handy. We can download the packages on RHEL systems where we have internet connectivity and then will transfer those packages to remote systems. Let’s suppose we want to download bind and bind-utils packages along with its dependencies. Login to RHEL 8 system, open the terminal and run following commands. Note: Below steps are also applicable for Rocky Linux 8, CentOS 8 stream and AlmaL inux OS 8. Downloading RPM Packages Without Installing 1) First create a directory where we will download packages. $ mkdir bind-pkg 2) Run dnf command with -downloadonly and ~downloaddir options $ sudo dnf install --downloadonly --downloaddir bind-pkg bind bind-utils In above command, ~downloadonly will instruct dnf command to download bind packages along with its dependencies without installing it. -downloaddir will instruct dnf command to download packages to directory “bind-pkg’. Output of above command, hitps: www tnuxbuzz comldownload-packages.withoutnstaling-onshel! 12410512028, 13:08 How to Download RPM Packages Without Installing on RHEL 8 Eiigratuien rape tear ren Ctra? 3) Verify the downloaded packages using Is command, $ 1s -1 bind-pkg/ Stn cns aU msackucn preter) ser] Ce eee Cee ain reece ete Ce ar ices Sicmecragtss eel aires’ everest Presse) amas Ree Ce ee ar r ft ri i rt e eras Pea tev eaters Cs eC Ree) ft i A A are oae ss 4 7 Ee ae resem CeCe acess 201 Uibmaxminddb-1.2.0-10.e18. x86_64. rpm ices’ een eee are aie eet? rien sure eee nC ar) em a Now we can make an archive file using tar command and then we can transfer it to the system where we want to install bind server. $ tar zcpvf bind-packages.tgz bind-pkg/ hitpswww.inuxbuzz. comidownlead-packages-withoutnstaling-on-rhal2410512028, 13:05 How to Download RPM Packages Without Installing on RHEL 8 [sysops@rhel8 ~]$ tar zcpvf bind-packages.tgz bind-pkg/ “—— Pye cg ee aU Eee ROC e a) bind-pkg/bind-libs-9.11.26-6.e18.x86_64.rpm bind-pkg/bind-libs-lite-9.11.26-6.e18.x86_64. rpm bind-pkg/bind-license-9.11.26-6.e18.noarch.rpm nd-pkg/bind-utils-9.11.26-6.e18.x86_64. rpm bind-pkg/fstrm-0.6.1-2.e18.x86_64.rpm bind-pkg/geol ite2-city-20180605-1.e18 .noarch.rpm Pe he ee aee yee per sc eee) Ure AGC runt Ss ee cee Ce MY aL) DU ete eee ee ieee | bind-pkg/python3-bind-9.11.26-6.e18.noarch.rpm [sysops@rhel8 ~]$ 1s Pea lol ct en ee a eas 1 sysops sysops 24925248 Feb 20 11:20 bind-packages.tgz [sysops@rhel8 ~1$ ff While downloading the packages using dnf command, if we don’t specify —downloadidr option then packages will be downloaded to ‘/var/cache/dnffbaseos-xxxxxxx/packages’’, ‘/var/eache/dnffappstream- xxxxx/packages’ and ‘/var/cache/dnf/epelxxxxxxxx/packages)”, sops@rhel Cree STS) root 4 r ce Car ers ecm rs erin ens arg 98:40 apr-utit-opensst ea ree era reer ers Oe ers Permteey ci rere a) root re eee) rg racer Sececoci root Eat) a we boda carpeeenie at ere eed Cert) ary Se eae) eee ‘That’s all from this guide. I hope you have found it informative. Please don’t hesitate to share your queries and feedback in below comments section. hitpswww.inuxbuzz. comidownlead-packages-withoutnstaling-on-rhal 3