Thanks for the reply Darsha,

On Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:15:32 +0200, Darshaka Pathirana wrote:

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How to download the .deb file for a package?

. . . Unable to find an archive "grml" for the package . . .

Maybe the wrong architecture?

What does:

% apt-config dump | grep Architecture

show?

% apt-config dump | grep Architecture APT::Architecture "i386";

What's in your "/etc/apt/sources.list"?

My /etc/apt/sources.list should be fine, because I can 'aptitude install' just fine, but can't do 'aptitude download':

% aptitude download live-initramfs initramfs-tools Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Unable to find an archive "grml" for the package "live-initramfs" Unable to find an archive "grml" for the package "initramfs-tools"

% aptitude install live-initramfs initramfs-tools The following NEW packages will be installed: busybox{a} live-initramfs user-setup{a} The following packages are RECOMMENDED but will NOT be installed: cryptsetup uuid-runtime 0 packages upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove Need to get 519kB of archives. After unpacking 1249kB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] Writing extended state information... Done Get:1 http://debian.mirror.rafal.ca unstable/main busybox 1:1.13.3-1 [316kB] Get:2 http://deb.grml.org grml-testing/main live-initramfs 1.157.1-1grml.07 [81.7kB] Get:3 http://debian.mirror.rafal.ca unstable/main user-setup 1.27 [121kB] Fetched 519kB in 1s (337kB/s)

Anyway, here is my /etc/apt/sources.list: http://pastebin.com/m51ab9d7

and my /etc/apt/preferences: http://pastebin.com/m3e29a6c2

Anything else? Why I can do 'aptitude install' but not 'aptitude download'?

thanks

* T o n g mlist4suntong@yahoo.com [20090704 17:01]:

On Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:15:32 +0200, Darshaka Pathirana wrote:

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What's in your "/etc/apt/sources.list"?

My /etc/apt/sources.list should be fine, because I can 'aptitude install' just fine, but can't do 'aptitude download':

% aptitude download live-initramfs initramfs-tools Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Unable to find an archive "grml" for the package "live-initramfs" Unable to find an archive "grml" for the package "initramfs-tools"

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Anything else? Why I can do 'aptitude install' but not 'aptitude download'?

Release pinning, just use:

aptitude -t grml-testing download live-initramfs initramfs-tools

regards, -mika-