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yumdowloader

yumdownloader is part of the yum-utils package:

$ yum install yum-utils

Download an rpm

$ yumdownloader wget

Download the rpm source package

$ yumdownloader --source wget

db_recover

db_recover is part of the libdb-utils package:

$ yum install libdb-utils

Recover the /var/lib/rpm database

After a crash, recovery of the rpmdb may be needed:

$ /usr/bin/db_recover -h /var/lib/rpm

repoquery

repoquery is part of yum-utils package:

$ yum install yum-utils

Query a remote repository without installing it

$ repoquery --repofrompath=repotmp,https://linuxsoft.cern.ch/cern/slc5X/x86_64/yum/os/ --repoid=repotmp -qa