Re: How download packages from a list

Thanks for the quick response! 
This command is working (the file is beeing read).

>     xargs apt -d install < mylist.txt
> 

However, the problem is, these packages are all abandoned, as i386 is no more supported 
by debian. However, this is no problem for me, but I believe, due to this politics, these 
packages are no more downloadable using the apt-get way.
(This is, what I believe!).

The command 

xargs apt -d install < mylist.txt

shows the output

*Error: Unable to locate package anna* 
*Error: Unable to locate package archdetect* 
*Error: Unable to locate package bogl-bterm-udeb* 
*Error: Unable to locate package btrfs-modules* 
*Error: Unable to locate package busybox-udeb* 
....
....

and so on.

On the other hand, these packagaes are still in the repo and can be downlaoded by ftp or 
rsync. 

Looks more difficult, than I thought at the beginning. I suppose, at the end, I will have to 
do the effort and downlaod all packages manually.

Hans