DEBGET(1)

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💖 DEBGET(1) — the Debian-goodies era 💖

okay bestie, listen up, we're reading a manpage together and honestly? it's a cute little one. this is debget from the Debian-goodies docs. pull up a chair, grab a boba 🧋, and let's get into it.

✨ NAME ✨

debget — go grab one or more .deb files for a package that's chilling in APT's database. no cap, that's the whole job. 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

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

(yes that second bracket is package> with a greater-than sign, i am not joking, i am copying it exactly, i do not make the rules 💀)

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so here's the tea. debget fetches .deb files for one or more packages straight from a Debian mirror. how does it do it? it slides into apt-get(8)'s download subcommand and lets that do the heavy lifting. which means: you get the exact same version from the exact same server that apt-get(8)'s install subcommand would've picked. no surprises, no drama, just consistent vibes. ✨

and where does your shiny new .deb land? right into your current working directory. that's it. that's the drop point. 💅

now, the fun part 👑 — if you append a "=version" with a package version number onto a package name, then that specific version gets downloaded. obviously only if it's actually available, because we can't manifest software out of thin air, bestie 😭.

💜 AUTHOR 💜

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

and the manpage itself was written by Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>. shoutout to the pen holder fr fr 🫶

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. iconic behaviour, honestly. 🌟

and on Debian systems specifically, a copy of the GNU General Public License version 2 lives right here:

/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2

go read it if you're feeling scholarly 📚✨

🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

  • apt-get(8) — the main character that does the actual downloading 🫡

and that's the whole page, bestie!! this was DEBGET(1) from the Debian-goodies documentation, rendered up all nice by perl v5.40.1, dated 2025-12-06. slay, stay hydrated, and always read the manpage before you rm -rf something 💖🌸💅

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