This may seem like a stupid question but how do you download a Debian package? (Yes, I'm a really low level newbie) My hangup concerns these preliminaries before performing a download.....
1. Should all downloads be done by root user or can any user do it? 2. What directory should be set as the active directory in the command line? I've done a lot of web searching, read many books and haven't found any information about preparation BEFORE downloading a package.. I have downloaded a few packages as root user and downloaded to root's home directory ' /root' but haven't yet tried installing because it just doesn't seem right to do it from /root for fear of screwing up the system. I know how to move a package to a different directory if that will help, but to which directory? Is /root a good directory to download into or is there a better choice? It seems that Debian has some good commands for downloading packages but here again, what preliminary preparations such as mentioned above are recommended? Am I tilting at windmills?