Yum : Howto download source packages By admin on March 21, 2009 in Uncategorized First get the yum-utils package if you don’t already have it: yum install yum-utils 1 yum install yum-utils Next just do: yumdownloader --source mypkg 1 yumdownloader --source mypkg where mypkg is the package that you want source for. No related posts.