DEBGET

Section: Debian-goodies documentation (1)
Updated: 2013-07-04
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NAME

debget - Fetch a .deb for a package in APT's database

SYNOPSIS

debget package [package ...]

DESCRIPTION

debget fetches a .deb for one or more packages from an Debian mirror. It uses apt-get(1) to find out the URL 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.

KNOWN BUGS

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.

AUTHOR

Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>

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

COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

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 may be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.