NAME¶

debget - Fetch one or more .deb files for a package in APT's database

SYNOPSIS¶

debget package[=version] [package>[=version] ...]

DESCRIPTION¶

debget fetches .deb files for one or more packages from an Debian mirror. It uses apt-get(8)'s download subcommand to download the package so it will download the same version from the same server as apt-get(8)'s install subcommand would do. The .deb file will be saved into your current working directory.

If a "=version" with a package version number is appended to a package name, that package version (if available) will be downloaded.

AUTHOR¶

Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>, Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>

This manpage was written by Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE¶

Copyright (C) 2001 Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU 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 GNU General Public License version 2 can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2.

SEE ALSO¶

apt-get(8)