Fetch a .deb for a package in apt's database
debget package [package ...]
debget fetches a .deb for one or more packages from an Debian mirror. It uses apt-get\|(1) to find out the \s-1URL\s0 so it will download the same version from the same server as apt-get would do. The .deb will be downloaded with curl\|(1) and stored in your current working directory.
debget will not work for packages that are available in apt-get's cache. If you need that functionality please use the .download option in aptitude.
Matt Zimmerman <[email protected]>
This manpage was written by Frank Lichtenheld <[email protected]>.
Copyright (C) 2001 Matt Zimmerman <[email protected]>.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the \s-1GNU\s0 General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version.
On Debian systems, a copy of the \s-1GNU\s0 General Public License may be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.
apt-get\|(1), curl\|(1)