I'd like to download a selection of packages for machine A that is on a slow connection. So I made a list of what I want and went to machine B, which has a fast connection, and used "apt-get --download-only install package". This didn't work for packages that are already installed on machine B because apt-get saw them as already up-to-date.
Can anyone tell me if there is a way to force apt-get (or any other tool) to download a package regardless of it's status on the machine from which it is being downloaded? I could do this easily with wget if I knew a way to automatically find the url for a package, based on my sources.list. Any ideas on that? Mike
