On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 10:32:48PM +0100, Andrea Vettorello wrote: > Look in the apt-get manual for the "--reinstall" option, if you want > only to download some packages use the "--download-only" option... ok, so: apt-get --reinstall --download-only foo will fetch "foo" from the archive even if it's already installed. That's handy to know, thanks.