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apk-fetch(8) System Manager's Manual apk-fetch(8)

NAME

apk fetch - download packages from global repositories to a local directory

SYNOPSIS

apk fetch [<options>...] packages...

DESCRIPTION

apk fetch downloads the requested packages from the configured package repositories (see apk-repositories(5)) to a local directory. The current working directory is used as the destination directory unless -o is specified.

OPTIONS

In addition to the global options (see apk(8)), and query options (see apk-query(8)) the following options are supported:

--built-after TIMESPEC

Only fetch packages that have buildtime more recent than TIMESPEC. TIMESPEC can be a "YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS" date, or seconds since epoch.

--link, -l

Create hard links if possible.

--pkgname-spec PKGNAME_SPEC

Generate downloaded package names with PKGNAME_SPEC specification. Does not work with --prune unless the specification starts with ${name}[-_.].

--output, -o DIR

Write the downloaded file(s) to DIR.

--simulate[=BOOL], -s

Simulate the requested operation without making any changes.

Note: this option is unreliable if needed indexes are not up-to-date as this omits refresing or downloading of missing indexes.

--stdout, -s

Dump the .apk file(s) to stdout.

Note: this option is incompatible with -o, -R, and the global --progress option.

--url

Print the full URL for downloaded packages.
2025-12-03