Have a list of RPMS or Debs? Stick them in a file, one on each line, and run this. I use it when upgrading between Fedora distros, if any RPMS have been missed according to upgrade.log
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
#
# Read in upgrade.log and get missing RPMS 
#
# GH - 22.06.05
#
use strict;

use LWP::Simple;

open(RPMS, "<", "./upgrade.log")
    or die "File not found or unreadable: $!\n";

my $url = 'http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/4/i
+386/os/Fedora/RPMS/';

while (<RPMS>) {
    chomp;
    print -e $_ ? "Already downloaded $_\n" : "Downloading $_\n";
    next if (-e $_);
    
    getstore ($url . $_, $_);
  
    print -e $_ ? "Got $_\n" : "Download failed for $_\n";

}
close(RPMS);

print "Download complete.\n";

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