How to download a file without installing?

[Mike Chambers]

On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 18:16 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
> 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.

Using rpm, as well as trying yum update/install foo
--disablerepo=some.repo and you can add more repos if need be.

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Mike Chambers
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