Additional commands for Ubuntu and Debian

From the command line, use any of the following commands to display information on version, available distributions, supported subscriptions and so on. The debian_downloader.bat and debian_downloader.sh executables are located in the folder where you extracted the Patch Downloader utility files, and can be used for either Ubuntu or Debian platforms.

To display the downloader help file, enter the following command:
(Windows) debian_downloader.bat -help
(UNIX) debian_downloader.sh -help
To display version information for the downloader, enter the following command:
(Windows) debian_downloader.bat -version
(UNIX) debian_downloader.sh -version
To list all available Ubuntu and Debian supported distributions, enter the following command:
(Windows) debian_downloader.bat -listDists
(UNIX) debian_downloader.sh -listDists
To list all available Ubuntu and Debian supported distributions filtered by given configuration file, enter the following command:
(Windows) debian_downloader.bat -listDists <configFile>
(UNIX) debian_downloader.sh -listDists <configFile>
This command uses the following variable:
Variable
Description
<configFile>
Name of the configuration file.

Variable	Description
<configFile>	Name of the configuration file.

To add a filter to the configuration file, enter the following command:

debian_downloader.bat -addAptRepository

-configFile <configFile>

-debian <flavor>

-osVersion <version>

-debArch <arch>

-debRepo <apt-get repository>

This command uses the following variable:

Variable	Description
<configFile>	Name of the configuration file. If the configuration file does not exist, a new file will be created.
<flavor>	Flavor of the OS, either Debian or Ubuntu.
<version>	Version of OS. For example, 18.04 for Ubuntu, or 8.0 for Debian.
<arch>	OS architecture type, either x86 or x86_64. If this option is not mentioned, both architectures will be filtered.
<apt-get repository>	apt-get repository specified in sources.list format: baseURL Distribution [Component1] [Component2]...[Component n] Debian example: http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists squeeze Ubuntu example: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic Restricted Main

To delete a filter from a given configuration file, enter the following command:

debian_downloader.bat -deleteAptRepository