Bug#194727: apt: wish it would allow non-root to download packages
On Mon, May 26, 2003 at 05:59:52PM +1000, Russell Coker wrote:
> Package: apt
> Version: 0.5.5.1
> Severity: wishlist
>
> Often when I am logged in to someone else's system I want to download a package
> to my home directory to unpack, examine, or transfer elsewhere.
>
> "apt-get -d install package" wants to put the package in
> /var/cache/apt/archives which is not writable by non-root.
>
> I would like to be able to tell it to download into another directory that I
> have write access to.
You can do this with some very long options and the creation of a 'partial'
directory. I find this much easier:
mizar:[/tmp] aptitude download hello
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree
Reading extended state information... Done
Get:1 http://debian unstable/main hello 2.1.1-1 [47.9kB]
Fetched 47.9kB in 0s (132kB/s)
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- mdz
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