Wookey <wookey@aleph1.co.uk> wrote: > (aptitude download does do what I want, but there seems to be no way > to point it at an apt.conf file specifying all the non-standard > directories I want it to use). Do I miss something? "apt-get -c my-apt.conf ..." seemed to work fine for me (well, only with "update" and "source"). It seems to read the default config file first and you would need to override the setting in yours. -- Catalin