On Sunday 02 September 2007 10:41, Mark Panen wrote: > Hi > > Looking through the man page for yum it states that yum will keep the > updates packages till you delete them. But this is not happening to me > on Fedora 7. > > Is there a switch to run "yum install" and keep the downloaded packages on > disk. > > Mark Hi Mark. As root in a text editor go to /etc/yum.conf , and change the keepcache line so that it reads: keepcache=1 Nigel.