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Is there a temporary folder I can find the RPM's that yum downloads to install programs? During an installation yum shows the exact name of the RPM file but I don't know how to find it. How can I search for the RPM if I know the name of it?

Robert Munteanu
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barrrista
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I believe what you are looking for is /var/cache/yum/<repo>/packages. This directory is expunged during package cleanup.

You can search for a file by name with the find command. An example: find / -name 'package.rpm' Wildcards are supported. find -name 'package*.rpm'

Aaron Copley
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I verified today that on RHEL 6.7, the files are stored in /var/cache/yum/x86_64/6Server/rhel-6-server-rpms/packages/.

It is also worth noting that the plugin downloadonly is included in RHEL 6:

# yum install yum-downloadonly
Package yum-plugin-downloadonly-1.1.30-30.el6.noarch is obsoleted by yum-3.2.29-69.el6.noarch which is already installed
techraf
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Arabicas Filerons
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I have found it here:

/var/cache/yum/x86_64/7Server/rhel-7-server-rpms/packages

Oozeer
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It found in below location here x86_64 if for 64 bit centos/RHEL OS. It exist at location as package.rpm.tmp
/var/cache/yum/x86_64/7/
/var/cache/yum/x86_64/6/

rkkr172
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The location of the cache is configurable, and although the default is /var/cache/yum/, it's much more reliable to check the value of main.cachedir in /etc/yum.conf.

William Pursell
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In Rocky linux 9 yum now points to dnf and every RPM that belongs to /etc/yum.repo.d/<your repo> will be inside /var/cache/dnf/<your repo>/packages

That's true, as long as said above, only if /etc/yum.conf has keepcache=1, otherwise, you won't find the file.

Ricky Levi
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