---
name: "debget"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "debian-goodies"
version: "0.88.2"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/debget"
---

# debget(1)

Fetch one or more .deb files for a package in APT's database

## NAME

debget - Fetch one or more .deb files for a package in APT's database

## SYNOPSIS

**debget** *package*\[=*version*\] \[*package*\>\[=*version*\] ...\]

## DESCRIPTION

**debget** fetches *.deb* files for one or more packages from an Debian mirror.  It uses [**apt-get**(8)](/apt-get/8.md)'s *download* subcommand to download the package so it will download the same version from the same server as [**apt-get**(8)](/apt-get/8.md)'s *install* subcommand would do. The *.deb* file will be saved into your current working directory.

If a "=*version*" with a package version number is appended to a package name, that package version (if available) will be downloaded.

## AUTHOR

Matt Zimmerman \<mdz@debian.org\>, Axel Beckert \<abe@debian.org\>

This manpage was written by Frank Lichtenheld \<frank@lichtenheld.de\>.

## COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

Copyright (C) 2001 Matt Zimmerman \<mdz@debian.org\>.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version.

On Debian systems, a copy of the GNU General Public License version 2 can be found in */usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2*.

## SEE ALSO

[**apt-get**(8)](/apt-get/8.md)