debian man page for debget

Query: debget

OS: debian

Section: 1

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DEBGET(1)						   Debian-goodies documentation 						 DEBGET(1)

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
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 may be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.
SEE ALSO
apt-get(1), curl(1) perl v5.14.2 2012-03-21 DEBGET(1)
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debpartial-mirror(1) - debian
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apt(8) - debian
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