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A yum plugin called downloadonly which is able to skip the rpm installation during the yum installation process.

Install the yum-downloadonly package as following command:

# yum install yum-downloadonly -y

Install a package using yum with --downloadonly and --downloadder parameters. For example: To download the yum-aliases package to /root directory from Red Hat Network:

# yum install yum-aliases --downloadonly --downloaddir=/root -y
...
Install 1 Package(s)
Update 0 Package(s)
Remove 0 Package(s)

Total download size: 12 k
Downloading Packages:
(1/1): yum-aliases-1.1.10 100% |=========================| 12 kB 00:00


exiting because --downloadonly specified

The yum utility will download the package from Red Hat Network and skip the installation step. The package will be store on the specified path.