Re: How to fetch a binary package given the package name

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 07/25/2010 01:01 PM, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2010-07-25 19:43 +0200, Malte Forkel wrote:
>
> > I can use
> >     apt-get source<pkg-name>[=version]
> > to fetch and extract a source package, given its name (and optionally,
> > its version).
> >
> > But is there any equivalent for binary packages? I.e., is there a tool
> > that downloads a binary package, given the package's name (and
> > optionally its version)?
>
> Yes, aptitude can do that.  Here's an example fetching the experimental
> version of xserver-xorg-core:
>
> ,----
> | % LANG=C aptitude download xserver-xorg-core=2:1.8.99.905-1
> | Get:1 http://ftp.de.debian.org experimental/main xserver-xorg-core 2:1.8.99.905-1 [1530kB]
> | Fetched 1530kB in 1s (1119kB/s)
> `----
>
> You can also use the "-t<suite>" switch to get a package from a given
> suite.

And if you're into The Once And Future Apt, it's:
# apt-get -d install xserver-xorg-core=2:1.8.99.905-1

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