Today it took me 3 tentatives, a lot of writing, a huge amount of lost time to download 3 packages from experimental! kidding ;), but I'd have prefer if the "unrecognized command" error was triggered by the first command... what I'm talking about: mattia@chase ~/devel/NMU/distcc % apt downlaod -t experimental distcc distcc-pump distccmon-gnome E: Command line option 't' [from -t] is not understood in combination with the other options. 100 mattia@chase ~/devel/NMU/distcc % apt downlaod distcc distcc-pump distccmon-gnome -t experimental :( E: Command line option 't' [from -t] is not understood in combination with the other options. 100 mattia@chase ~/devel/NMU/distcc % apt downlaod distcc/experimental distcc-pump/experimental distccmon-gnome/experimental :( E: Invalid operation downlaod 100 mattia@chase ~/devel/NMU/distcc % apt download distcc/experimental distcc-pump/experimental distccmon-gnome/experimental :( Get:1 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian experimental/main amd64 distcc amd64 3.2~rc1-2 [466 kB] Get:2 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian experimental/main amd64 distcc-pump amd64 3.2~rc1-2 [351 kB] Get:3 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian experimental/main amd64 distccmon-gnome amd64 3.2~rc1-2 [253 kB] Fetched 1,070 kB in 10s (98.3 kB/s) mattia@chase ~/devel/NMU/distcc %