tool used to download packages?

[Derek Broughton]

golfer wrote:

> it's all possible to use "apt-get --print-uris dist-upgrade >
> somefile" and then "wget -i somefile" to use wget for your downloads.
> see the man pages for exact syntax.

You know, it should be, but there are two drawbacks to that - firstly, I
much prefer to use aptitude, and it doesn't have the --print-uris option,
and secondly, I thought of this yesterday and gave it a try - I don't get
any results from apt-get!
-- 
derek