Tech stuff. In case you ever need to download .deb packages using Apt package-manager even though you a) are not root in the system or b) have the package already installed, here is the cure.
First, define a bash function by copy-pasting this "one-liner" on the command-line or in your ~/.bashrc initialization script:
function apt-download { \
apt-get --print-uris -d install --reinstall $1 -y -q | \
cut -d"'" -f2 | \
egrep '^(cdrom|file|http|ftp|copy|ssh|rsh)' | \
xargs wget -c; }
Then, run it with the package name as a parameter like this:
apt-download PACKAGE-NAME
The script extracts the URIs of the package( and its dependencie)s and (resume-)downloads them with wget (as far as wget supports the same listed URI types as Apt; http and ftp repositories should work fine). The script does not need aptitude but if the system has it installed, the simplest way is to:
aptitude download PACKAGE-NAME
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