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6 dget - Download Debian source and binary packages
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9 dget [options] URL ...
10 dget [options] [--all] package[=version] ...
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13 dget downloads Debian packages. In the first form, dget fetches the
14 requested URLs. If this is a .dsc or .changes file, then dget acts as
15 a source-package aware form of wget: it also fetches any files
16 referenced in the .dsc/.changes file. The downloaded source is then
17 checked with dscverify and, if successful, unpacked by dpkg-source.
18 In the second form, dget downloads a binary package (i.e., a .deb file)
20 from the Debian mirror configured in /etc/apt/sources.list(.d). Unlike
21 apt-get install -d, it does not require root privileges, writes to the
22 current directory, and does not download dependencies. If a version
23 number is specified, this version of the package is requested. With
24 --all, the list of all binaries for the source package package is
25 extracted from the output of "apt-cache showsrc package".
26 In both cases dget is capable of getting several packages and/or URLs
28 at once.
29 (Note that .udeb packages used by debian-installer are located in
31 separate packages files from .deb packages. In order to use .udebs with
32 dget, you will need to have configured apt to use a packages file for
33 component/debian-installer).
34 Before downloading files listed in .dsc and .changes files, and before
36 downloading binary packages, dget checks to see whether any of these
37 files already exist. If they do, then their md5sums are compared to
38 avoid downloading them again unnecessarily. dget also looks for
39 matching files in /var/cache/apt/archives and directories given by the
40 --path option or specified in the configuration files (see below).
41 Finally, if downloading (.orig).tar.gz or .diff.gz files fails, dget
42 consults apt-get source --print-uris. Download backends used are curl
43 and wget, looked for in that order.
44 dget was written to make it easier to retrieve source packages from the
46 web for sponsor uploads. For checking the package with debdiff, the
47 last binary version is available via dget package, the last source
48 version via apt-get source package.
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51 -a, --all
52 Interpret package as a source package name, and download all
53 binaries as found in the output of "apt-cache showsrc package". If
54 package is arch-qualified, then only binary packages which are
55 "Arch: all", "Arch: any", or "Arch: $arch" will be downloaded.
56 -b, --backup
58 Move files that would be overwritten to ./backup.
59 -q, --quiet
61 Suppress wget/curl non-error output.
62 -d, --download-only
64 Do not run dpkg-source -x on the downloaded source package. This
65 can only be used with the first method of calling dget.
66 -x, --extract
68 Run dpkg-source -x on the downloaded source package to unpack it.
69 This option is the default and can only be used with the first
70 method of calling dget.
71 -u, --allow-unauthenticated
73 Do not attempt to verify the integrity of downloaded source
74 packages using dscverify.
75 --build
77 Run dpkg-buildpackage -b -uc on the downloaded source package.
78 --path DIR[:DIR ...]
80 In addition to /var/cache/apt/archives, dget uses the colon-
81 separated list given as argument to --path to find files with a
82 matching md5sum. For example: "--path
83 /srv/pbuilder/result:/home/cb/UploadQueue". If DIR is empty (i.e.,
84 "--path ''" is specified), then any previously listed directories
85 or directories specified in the configuration files will be
86 ignored. This option may be specified multiple times, and all of
87 the directories listed will be searched; hence, the above example
88 could have been written as: "--path /srv/pbuilder/result --path
89 /home/cb/UploadQueue".
90 -k, --insecure
92 Allow SSL connections to untrusted hosts.
93 --no-cache
95 Bypass server-side HTTP caches by sending a Pragma: no-cache
96 header.
97 -h, --help
99 Show a help message.
100 -V, --version
102 Show version information.
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105 The two configuration files /etc/devscripts.conf and ~/.devscripts are
106 sourced by a shell in that order to set configuration variables.
107 Command line options can be used to override configuration file
108 settings. Environment variable settings are ignored for this purpose.
109 The currently recognised variable is:
110 DGET_PATH
112 This can be set to a colon-separated list of directories in which
113 to search for files in addition to the default
114 /var/cache/apt/archives. It has the same effect as the --path
115 command line option. It is not set by default.
116 DGET_UNPACK
118 Set to 'no' to disable extracting downloaded source packages.
119 Default is 'yes'.
120 DGET_VERIFY
122 Set to 'no' to disable checking signatures of downloaded source
123 packages. Default is 'yes'.
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126 Download all .deb files for the previous version of a package and run
127 debdiff on them:
128 dget --all mypackage=1.2-1
130 debdiff --from *_1.2-1_*.deb --to *_1.2-2_*.deb
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133 dget package should be implemented in apt-get install -d.
134 Before devscripts version 2.10.17, the default was not to extract the
136 downloaded source. Set DGET_UNPACK=no to revert to the old behaviour.
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139 This program is Copyright (C) 2005-2013 by Christoph Berg
140 <myon@debian.org>. Modifications are Copyright (C) 2005-06 by Julian
141 Gilbey <jdg@debian.org>.
142 This program is licensed under the terms of the GPL, either version 2
144 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
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147 apt-get(1), curl(1), debcheckout(1), debdiff(1), dpkg-source(1),
148 wget(1)
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