Download on demand The next logical step was being able to use remote archives transparently: [tornado;~]-4# apt-get install gnome-stones Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: gnome-games-locale The following NEW packages will be installed: gnome-games-locale gnome-stones 0 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. Need to get 127kB/325kB of archives. After unpacking 821kB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n]