how to repack an installed programe

[jonniemuk]

hello *,
In fedora is it possible to get back the installed files of an application and install them on another machine. like i downloaded and installed vlc via "yum install vlc" but i want to retrieve back the installed files (rpms) for re installation because i have a very slow connection.

[atreyu]

No need to repackage it, you can just reuse the same RPM - but maybe that's what you mean.

There is a yum plugin called downloadonly or something like that, it keeps the file in your cache (like in /var/cache/yum or somewhere).

You can also just wget the file you want from the repos. Here is the Fedora 16 i386 repo, e.g.:

Index of /pub/fedora/linux/releases/16/Everything/i386/os/Packages

Edit: In F16 that yum plugin is yum-plugin-downloadonly

[manojsamtani]

Hi ,

You can do this by simple steps like:

1) change configuration file yum.conf

keepcache=1

2) After running "yum install anypackage", package will be stored in /var/cache/yum directory


Thanks & Regards,

[atreyu]

much better, Manoj.

[manojsamtani]

much better, Manoj.

Thanks