NAME

       debget - Fetch one or more .deb files for a package in APT's database

SYNOPSIS

       debget package[=version] [package>[=version] ...]

DESCRIPTION

       debget fetches .deb files for one or more packages from an Debian mirror.  It uses
       apt-get(8)'s download subcommand to download the package so it will download the same
       version from the same server as apt-get(8)'s install subcommand would do. The .deb file
       will be saved into your current working directory.

       If a "=version" with a package version number is appended to a package name, that package
       version (if available) will be downloaded.

AUTHOR

       Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>, Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>

       This manpage was written by Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

       Copyright (C) 2001 Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>.

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of
       the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
       version 2, or (at your option) any later version.

       On Debian systems, a copy of the GNU General Public License version 2 can be found in
       /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2.

SEE ALSO

       apt-get(8)