Hello

I was provided with repository link, in form "deb http://repo.example.com/debian wheezy main"

I have package name "OneMillionBuksApp"

How I can download that package from given repo having unreachable apt (non-Debian distro or non-Linux environment)?
Any script or any formal algorithm?

Just use a browser. Go to the repositories address in your browser (in your example that would be http://repo.example.com/debian), you will find your package if you follow the links pool->main, then look into the proper category (I can't say which one without seeing the actual repository).

That is what I did in first place. I got 403 Forbidden. Try it yourself Any suggestions?

My understanding is that Wheezy is the current Stable branch. If so, just go to the main Debian repository:
http://packages.debian.org/stable/

and use the browser to navigate the pages to find and download your package.

Did you try contacting the owners of the website? Why do you think that we here at linuxquestions.org would be administrators to help you troubleshoot a broken link at acestream.org?

Contact the administrator, I see no other way.

You could try posting your problem here: http://forum.torrentstream.org/index.php?topic=1933.0

That is not broken link! It works! I have instantiated Ubuntu in VirtualBox, setup this repo int /etc/apt/sources.list and downloaded packages using "apt-get download". All I need now is to know way how to do that manually. I need to know what really does apt-get when I ask "apt-get download somethink".

Here is an explanation of the "403 Forbidden" error, to help you understand why the administrator of that website is the best person to help you (not us):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_403

If you have downloaded/installed the Ubuntu package, the .deb ought to be in your /var/cache/apt/archives so you can copy it to another computer. The thread I linked to in #7 claims that this project does not distribute source, only pre-compiled .deb which you might already have sitting in /var/cache/apt/archives/acestream-engine.deb for example.

Again, I have NOT any DEBAIN-based distribution around nearest 2 kilometers. WHAT I MUST TO DO SO REPO SERVER DETECTS ME AS APT-GET NOT AS HUMAN? Do I ask something awfully complex? Describe me algorithm of "apt-get download packagename".

You said in post #8 that you have Ubuntu in virtualbox. Ubuntu is Debian-based, so if you have Ubuntu, then you DO have a Debian-based distribution.

Hi,
How is the physical distance to your machine of any relevance?
Not usually a good idea to yell at people you are asking to help you.

I don't know the algorithm but I think apt reads /var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin and /var/lib/apt/lists/*_Packages to determine where to download the package from and then downloads it. If you really want to know you could dig into the apt documentation and source code. However reading this thread I think you can probably get the information you want using snort when doing "apt-get download foo".

Evo2.

If you just want one off downloads then go to Debian Packages scroll down the page, fill in the relevant details and shazzam you'll get links to the packages you want to download.

SO, next time when I shall setup another instance let say of Mandirva, and I want to get package from deb repo you propose me to do next:
1. install virtual box
2. install debian/ububtu as guest
3. modify /etc/APT/sources.list of guest: add repo link
4. issue "apt-get update && apt-get download packagename" on guest system
5. extract received packages from guest to host
instead of simple
download-from-deb-repo.sh <repo-uri> <package-names>
???

And repeat this procedure for each time on each non-Debian machine?


I writing that download-from-deb-repo.sh and asked explanation of step 4. in head post and got only unrelated answers.