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Javier López
Asked: 2012-04-25 19:48:39 +0800 CST

How retrieve files in a minimal ubuntu installation? aka how apt-get retrieves files?

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I'm running pbuilder, which setup a minimal ubuntu installation, and I'd like to retrieve some files without «wget» (it's not installed by default), since apt-get can retrieve .deb files I imagine there must be a way

networking apt wget

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    apt-get uses a library, which you probably cannot use yourself since a minimal system likely does not include a compiler that you could use to build a program using that library. Perhaps you should use apt-get to install wget or curl.

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