Hi Doug, Try
apt-get --print-uris -y dselect-upgrade >PACKAGES Take that file to your work machine and do a for i in `awk <PACKAGES {print $1}`; do wget --cont $i; done This is *not* tested! ... But should work. Bye, J -- Jürgen A. Erhard [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: (GERMANY) 0721 27326 MARS: http://members.tripod.com/Juergen_Erhard/mars_index.html Electronic Frontier Foundation (http://www.eff.org) Amazon.com: One-Click Patent - One-Click Boycott