On Sun 01 Mar 2026 at 14:08:44 (+0100), Hans wrote: > I need to download a bunch of udeb packages from bookworm i386 repository. > Thus I > created a list with the package names, but obviously I did not do correctly. > > On my amd64 system I edited the sources.list and added > > deb [arch=i386] http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bookworm main contrib non-free > non-free- > firmware > > deb-src [arch=i386] http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bookworm main contrib > non-free non- > free-firmware > > Then did an "apt update" and afterwards I tried > > xargs apt -d install --reinstall < /home/username/mypackagelist.txt > > This told me, that none of the packages are found. Not a single one. > > I suppose, maybe not all packages might be in the repo any more, but all? > On the other hand, these packages should be available for example in > backports.debian.org. > > Is there a way, to download them using the list or must I search and find > every package by > using ftp and download every package each manually?
AFAIK the latter. You can't use the normal tools to install them and wreck your system. You should probably start by reading: https://d-i.debian.org/doc/internals/ch03.html Cheers, David.
