on Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 09:05:01PM +0100, Andre Berger (uzscd5@uni-bonn.de) wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> can I view a package's changelog without having to download it first?
> This would be esp. useful for intended large downloads such as
> kernel-source-*; even kernel-doc-* is more than one meg to download each
> time.
$ apt-get install --download-only package
...You can then browse the package file itself through tools like mc,
gmc, or nautilus, or unpack it (it's a shar shell archive) to a
convenient location.
...I'm not aware that package files are available independently of the
packages themselves.
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