On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Michael Havens wrote:

> I was once told that if I gave it the d option that it wouldn't automatically
> upack the package. I now wonder why you wouldn't want to unpack ot. Isn't
> that the reason you loaded it onto your system in the first place?

Maybe to upgrade later.

> Further: how do you unpack these downloaded files and where do they download
> to?

dpkg --install PKGNAME.HERE

Look under /var/cache/apt/archives/


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