Download And Install RPM Packages With Dependencies

Some customers don’t have local repos or Internet connection, so it can be troblesome to install packages with dependencies. Then when I saw junior admin installed packages one by one and I thought to myself there must be another way.

After some googling I found yumdownloadonly, yumdownloader. They are part of yum-utils

The following will only download package and dependencies:

$ sudo yum install --downloadonly --downloaddir=. mariadb-server

Total download size: 21 M
Installed size: 110 M
Background downloading packages, then exiting:
(1/9): perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib-2.061-4.el7.x86_64.rpm   |  57 kB
(2/9): perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2-2.061-3.el7.x86_64.rpm  |  32 kB
(3/9): perl-DBI-1.627-4.el7.x86_64.rpm                 | 802 kB
(4/9): perl-DBD-MySQL-4.023-6.el7.x86_64.rpm           | 140 kB
(5/9): perl-Net-Daemon-0.48-5.el7.noarch.rpm           |  51 kB
(6/9): perl-PlRPC-0.2020-14.el7.noarch.rpm             |  36 kB
(7/9): perl-IO-Compress-2.061-2.el7.noarch.rpm         | 260 kB
(8/9): mariadb-5.5.60-1.el7_5.x86_64.rpm               | 8.9 MB
(9/9): mariadb-server-5.5.60-1.el7_5.x86_64.rpm        |  11 MB
---------------------------------------------------------------
Total                                          45 MB/s |  21 MB
exiting because "Download Only" specified

Then copy to offline machine and run:

$ sudo rpm -hiv *.rpm

Preparing...                          ######################## [100%]
Updating / installing...
   1:perl-Net-Daemon-0.48-5.el7       ######################## [ 11%]
   2:perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib-1:2.061-4.######################## [ 22%]
   3:perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2-2.061-3.e######################## [ 33%]
   4:perl-IO-Compress-2.061-2.el7     ######################## [ 44%]
   5:perl-PlRPC-0.2020-14.el7         ######################## [ 56%]
   6:perl-DBI-1.627-4.el7             ######################## [ 67%]
   7:perl-DBD-MySQL-4.023-6.el7       ######################## [ 78%]
   8:mariadb-1:5.5.60-1.el7_5         ######################## [ 89%]
   9:mariadb-server-1:5.5.60-1.el7_5  ######################## [100%]

Check if installed correctly:

$ mysql_secure_installation

NOTE: RUNNING ALL PARTS OF THIS SCRIPT IS RECOMMENDED FOR ALL MariaDB
      SERVERS IN PRODUCTION USE!  PLEASE READ EACH STEP CAREFULLY!

Success!

Published 19 Feb 2019

Dauren Akilbekov

Download And Install RPM Packages With Dependencies