Where do yum downloaded package go

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Fri, 2011-07-01 at 04:15 +0000, shailesh wrote:
> when we do yum install vlc then first it download packages and then 
> install it...please tell me where(in which folder)it download these packages???

If you mean the actual RPM package files, look in /etc/yum.conf for the
cachedir setting (usually /var/cache/yum/...). If you mean the installed
contents of each package, it depends entirely on the package itself. To
find where the files of package foo are, do "rpm -ql foo".

poc