The deb-downloader is bash script to download deb files from a repository.
This can be used for example if you want to download a package to install it on an offline system.
-m <mirror url>The URL of the mirror.-d <dist>Codename of the distribution.-p <package>Name of the package which should be downloaded.
-c <components>Component(s) inside the repository. Defaults to 'main'.-a <architecture>Type of the processor architecture of the target system. Defaults to 'amd64'.-DDetect and load all dependencies for the package.-tTest run. Will only load the index files, detect the dependencies and print the download links.-hShow this help.
Download 'nano' for Ubuntu xenial (16.04)
./deb-downloader.sh -m http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ -d xenial -p nano
Download 'gimp' for Ubuntu artful (17.10) using the 'universe' component for i386 systems
./deb-downloader.sh -m http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ -d artful -c universe -a i386 -p gimp
Download 'ntp' for Raspbian Stretch using the default Raspbian repo settings and including all dependencies
./deb-downloader.sh -m http://archive.raspbian.org/raspbian/ -d stretch -c "main contrib non-free rpi" -a armhf -p ntp -D
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