Bug#152217: apt: Add new apt-get download command.
Package: apt
Version: 0.5.4
Severity: wishlist
Hi,
Currently, if one wants to download the .deb for a package, they would
type apt-get -d install package. This is rather obtuse, as you're not
installing anything, you're just downloading the file.
However, if said package is already installed, and at its newest
version, apt will refuse to do anything. In this case one has to run
apt-get -d --reinstall install package. This is even less obvious than
the previous invocation.
It would be much easier, and would make much more sense if there was an
apt-get download package instead. This command should download the file
into the current directory, so that any user can run it. There could be
an extra --nodeps or similar option to avoid downloading other .deb's
that the package depends on.
Thanks,
Norbert
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux pyre.virge.net 2.4.19-pre10 #1 Thu Jun 6 20:57:36 EDT 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii libc6 2.2.5-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-9 The GNU stdc++ library
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