On Mon, May 26, 2003 at 05:59:52PM +1000, Russell Coker wrote: > Package: apt > Version: 0.5.5.1 > Severity: wishlist > > Often when I am logged in to someone else's system I want to download a > package > to my home directory to unpack, examine, or transfer elsewhere. > > "apt-get -d install package" wants to put the package in > /var/cache/apt/archives which is not writable by non-root. > > I would like to be able to tell it to download into another directory that I > have write access to.
You can do this with some very long options and the creation of a 'partial' directory. I find this much easier: mizar:[/tmp] aptitude download hello Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree Reading extended state information... Done Get:1 http://debian unstable/main hello 2.1.1-1 [47.9kB] Fetched 47.9kB in 0s (132kB/s) -- - mdz
