Where are the rpm files after installation using yum?

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redhat 5.4.

I have installed a package using yum the package was wireshark.

However, after it has installed. Where can I find the rpm package?

I would like to locate the actual wireshark.rpm package so that I can install it on another machine that is not connected to the Internet.

Many thanks,

Janne Pikkarainen · Answer 1 · 2010-08-03 07:07:16Z

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Take a look under /var/cache/yum directory.

answered Aug 3 '10 at 7:07

	I looked in the following directory /var/cache/yum/rhn-tools-rhel-i386-server-5/packages There was no rpm's. Thanks – ant2009 Aug 3 '10 at 7:10
	They should be there unless you have some kind of autocleanup going on. Try this command: find /var/cache/yum -iname '*.rpm' – Janne Pikkarainen Aug 3 '10 at 7:12
	Sorry, just ran that command. Nothing. Could yum have removed the rpm packages right after yum finished? – ant2009 Aug 3 '10 at 7:18
	Yeah, most likely so. See the cachedir variable in /etc/yum.conf and check out what's the current directory for storing packages. It can also be that tmpwatch or some other daily cron cleanup has cleared the /var/cache/yum. – Janne Pikkarainen Aug 3 '10 at 8:13
	Thanks for your help. This is my yum.conf. Anything should I change? cachedir=/var/cache/yum keepcache=0 debuglevel=2 logfile=/var/log/yum.log distroverpkg=redhat-release tolerant=1 exactarch=1 obsoletes=1 gpgcheck=1 plugins=1 # Note: yum-RHN-plugin doesn't honor this. metadata_expire=1h – ant2009 Aug 3 '10 at 8:47

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