Package: apt Version: 0.5.3 According to the man page, the -d option is for only downloading, but not installing or configuring the packages. Well, this is what I get:
hooloovoo:/home/abli# apt-get -ds install masqmail Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: exim eximon The following NEW packages will be installed: masqmail 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 2 to remove and 51 not upgraded. Remv eximon (3.31-1 Debian:testing) Remv exim (3.31-1 Debian:testing) [at anacron mailx ] Inst masqmail (0.1.15-1 Debian:testing) Conf masqmail (0.1.15-1 Debian:testing) hooloovoo:/home/abli# So it clearly wants to configure the package. hooloovoo:/home/abli# uname -a Linux hooloovoo 2.2.17 #1 Sun Jun 25 09:24:41 EST 2000 i686 unknown hooloovoo:/home/abli# dpkg -s libc6 | grep ^Version Version: 2.2.4-1 O, yes, and when I actually want to do it: hooloovoo:/home/abli# apt-get -d install masqmail Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: exim eximon The following NEW packages will be installed: masqmail 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 2 to remove and 51 not upgraded. Need to get 87.9kB of archives. After unpacking 933kB will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n Abort. hooloovoo:/home/abli# I just want to download the package, because I don't want to throw exim out. (I use a dialup and prefer configuring cmplex things like mail while offline) Just to be really long: hooloovoo:/home/abli# apt-get -d install glaxium Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: glaxium 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 51 not upgraded. Need to get 1183kB of archives. After unpacking 1864kB will be used. Get:1 ftp://ftp.index.hu woody/main glaxium 0.3d-6 [1183kB] Fetched 1183kB in 5m24s (3648B/s) Download complete and in download only mode hooloovoo:/home/abli# abli [EMAIL PROTECTED]
