NAME

       dget -- Download Debian source and binary packages

SYNOPSIS

       dget [options] URL ...
       dget [options] [--all] package[=version] ...

DESCRIPTION

       dget downloads Debian packages.  In the first form, dget fetches the requested URLs.  If
       this is a .dsc or .changes file, then dget acts as a source-package aware form of wget: it
       also fetches any files referenced in the .dsc/.changes file.  The downloaded source is
       then checked with dscverify and, if successful, unpacked by dpkg-source.

       In the second form, dget downloads a binary package (i.e., a .deb file) from the Debian
       mirror configured in /etc/apt/sources.list(.d).  Unlike apt-get install -d, it does not
       require root privileges, writes to the current directory, and does not download
       dependencies.  If a version number is specified, this version of the package is requested.
       With --all, the list of all binaries for the source package package is extracted from the
       output of "apt-cache showsrc package".

       In both cases dget is capable of getting several packages and/or URLs at once.

       (Note that .udeb packages used by debian-installer are located in separate packages files
       from .deb packages. In order to use .udebs with dget, you will need to have configured apt
       to use a packages file for component/debian-installer).

       Before downloading files listed in .dsc and .changes files, and before downloading binary
       packages, dget checks to see whether any of these files already exist.  If they do, then
       their md5sums are compared to avoid downloading them again unnecessarily.  dget also looks
       for matching files in /var/cache/apt/archives and directories given by the --path option
       or specified in the configuration files (see below).  Finally, if downloading
       (.orig).tar.gz or .diff.gz files fails, dget consults apt-get source --print-uris.
       Download backends used are curl and wget, looked for in that order.

       dget was written to make it easier to retrieve source packages from the web for sponsor
       uploads.  For checking the package with debdiff, the last binary version is available via
       dget package, the last source version via apt-get source package.

OPTIONS

       -a, --all
           Interpret package as a source package name, and download all binaries as found in the
           output of "apt-cache showsrc package".

       -b, --backup
           Move files that would be overwritten to ./backup.

       -q, --quiet
           Suppress wget/curl non-error output.

       -d, --download-only
           Do not run dpkg-source -x on the downloaded source package.  This can only be used
           with the first method of calling dget.

       -x, --extract
           Run dpkg-source -x on the downloaded source package to unpack it.  This option is the
           default and can only be used with the first method of calling dget.

       -u, --allow-unauthenticated
           Do not attempt to verify the integrity of downloaded source packages using dscverify.

       --build
           Run dpkg-buildpackage -b -uc on the downloaded source package.

       --path DIR[:DIR ...]
           In addition to /var/cache/apt/archives, dget uses the colon-separated list given as
           argument to --path to find files with a matching md5sum.  For example: "--path
           /srv/pbuilder/result:/home/cb/UploadQueue".  If DIR is empty (i.e., "--path ''" is
           specified), then any previously listed directories or directories specified in the
           configuration files will be ignored.  This option may be specified multiple times, and
           all of the directories listed will be searched; hence, the above example could have
           been written as: "--path /srv/pbuilder/result --path /home/cb/UploadQueue".

       --insecure
           Allow SSL connections to untrusted hosts.

       --no-cache
           Bypass server-side HTTP caches by sending a Pragma: no-cache header.

       -h, --help
           Show a help message.

       -V, --version
           Show version information.

CONFIGURATION VARIABLES

       The two configuration files /etc/devscripts.conf and ~/.devscripts are sourced by a shell
       in that order to set configuration variables.  Command line options can be used to
       override configuration file settings.  Environment variable settings are ignored for this
       purpose.  The currently recognised variable is:

       DGET_PATH
           This can be set to a colon-separated list of directories in which to search for files
           in addition to the default /var/cache/apt/archives.  It has the same effect as the
           --path command line option.  It is not set by default.

       DGET_UNPACK
           Set to 'no' to disable extracting downloaded source packages.  Default is 'yes'.

       DGET_VERIFY
           Set to 'no' to disable checking signatures of downloaded source packages.  Default is
           'yes'.

EXAMPLES

       Download all .deb files for the previous version of a package and run debdiff on them:

         dget --all mypackage=1.2-1
         debdiff --from *_1.2-1_*.deb --to *_1.2-2_*.deb

BUGS AND COMPATIBILITY

       dget package should be implemented in apt-get install -d.

       Before devscripts version 2.10.17, the default was not to extract the downloaded source.
       Set DGET_UNPACK=no to revert to the old behaviour.

AUTHOR

       This program is Copyright (C) 2005-2013 by Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>.
       Modifications are Copyright (C) 2005-06 by Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org>.

       This program is licensed under the terms of the GPL, either version 2 of the License, or
       (at your option) any later version.

SEE ALSO

       apt-get(1), curl(1), debcheckout(1), debdiff(1), dpkg-source(1), wget(1)