This is great! So if I make the substitutions you suggest, your script will examine the deb needs of my 10 installed apps, and download just those files by examining the repos of maemo.org? Or does it download everything from maemo repos? (the latter would be difficult given so few installed apps on my device)

Actually, when I think it over, I've also manually installed some debs to get the Diablo Turbo kernel up and running. Those debs did not come from maemo.org Will that make the script complain?

What a helpful forum,
Jake