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How can I tell yum to download a source package (i.e., a .src.rpm file)?

April 26, 2017download file package source yum

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How can I tell yum to download a source package (i.e., a .src.rpm file)?

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A. The main yum program doesn’t do this — it’s not within the scope of the program’s design goals. But, since it’s a very useful function, the yumdownloader program from the yum-utils package is available for doing this very thing.