Centos 7 Example

• On Redhat and Centos OS, tar and libnsl may need to be pre-installed as they are needed t unpack the installer runfile:

  # Navigate to a clean directory to download packages to mkdir -p /tmp/omk_opXyz_packages cd /tmp/omk_opXyz_packages # Extract the list of dependent packages: yum -q deplist tar; package: tar.x86_64 2:1.26-35.el7 dependency: /bin/sh provider: bash.x86_64 4.2.46-34.el7 dependency: /sbin/install-info provider: info.x86_64 5.1-5.el7 dependency: libacl.so.1()(64bit) provider: libacl.x86_64 2.2.51-15.el7 dependency: libacl.so.1(ACL_1.0)(64bit) provider: libacl.x86_64 2.2.51-15.el7 dependency: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.17)(64bit) provider: glibc.x86_64 2.17-307.el7.1 dependency: libselinux.so.1()(64bit) provider: libselinux.x86_64 2.5-15.el7 dependency: rtld(GNU_HASH) provider: glibc.x86_64 2.17-307.el7.1 provider: glibc.i686 2.17-307.el7.1 # libnsl is not needed in this example as no package is returned: yum -q deplist libnsl # Download each of the dependent packages: # yumdownloader <package1> <package2>… yumdownloader tar.x86_64 Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile epel/x86_64/metalink | 2.8 kB 00:00:00 * base: mirror.ventraip.net.au * epel: mirror.aarnet.edu.au * extras: mirror.ventraip.net.au * updates: mirror.ventraip.net.au base | 3.6 kB 00:00:00 epel | 4.7 kB 00:00:00 extras | 2.9 kB 00:00:00 updates tar-1.26-35.el7.x86_64.rpm # Packages should be in current directory: ls -la -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 865848 Nov 12 2018 tar-1.26-35.el7.x86_64.rpm