---
name: "botch-download-pkgsrc"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "botch"
version: "0.24-6+b1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/botch-download-pkgsrc"
---

# botch-download-pkgsrc(1)

download Packages and Sources

## NAME

botch-download-pkgsrc - download Packages and Sources

## SYNOPSIS

- **botch-download-pkgsrc** \[*arch* *suite*\]

  ## DESCRIPTION

Download Packages and Sources files from a mirror. If *arch* and *suite* are not specified, then the default is to download a snapshot of Debian Sid of January 1. 2014 from snapshot.debian.org.

The value *arch* can be set to a valid Debian architecture and the value *suite* can either be a Debian release in which case, the Packages and Sources files are retrieved from http.debian.net or it can be a Ubuntu release in which case the files are retrieved from archive.ubuntu.com or it can be a year after 2005 in which case a snapshot of Debian sid of January 1. of that year is retrieved from snapshot.debian.org

## BUGS

See \<http://bugs.debian.org/botch\>.

## SEE ALSO

Debian doc-base Manual */usr/share/doc/botch/wiki/Home.html*

## AUTHOR

This man page was written by Johannes Schauer. Botch is written by Johannes Schauer and Pietro Abate.

## COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2012-2014 Johannes Schauer, Pietro Abate

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. A special linking exception to the GNU Lesser General Public License applies to this library, see the COPYING file for more information.