On Sun, Jul 05, 2026 at 08:14:40PM +0200, Hans wrote: > Dear list, > > for my own purposes I need a bunch of packages from 32-bit bookworm. > > Is there an easy way, to download them, instead of download the whole > repository with rsync? > > I need normal *.deb and *.udeb files and my list is rather long, so that I > would automate this. I tried > > apt -d install < mylist.txt > > but this did not work.
"did not work" is not very helpful. Still, I guess it is just that apt expects the package name(s) as arguments. If the list is not extremely huge (getconf ARG_MAX will tell you how much, roughly), you can try to command-line expand the file into the arguments like so: apt -d install $(cat mylist.txt) BTW: for scripting purposes you better use apt-get than apt. Says the apt documentation. Cheers -- t
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