Not sure why I tried to do that. I knew when I did it that it wouldn’t work and I was kicking my self for being stupid when the prompt showed up asking me to confirm that I wanted to download to that location. My jaw hit the metaphorical floor!
Now I’m wondering what other neat tricks I’ve missed over the years!
To be clear this is in Firefox on NixOS with the KDE6 desktop environment. No clue if it works on other browsers, DEs, or OSs.
So, use an apt frontend that does that. I prefer to use apt search and apt show to find packages and then follow links if I want to read more. I was happy when I could remove aptitude, synaptic, deselect and whatever and just install what I wanted and only what I wanted instead. Also debfoster.
Also, https://packages.debian.org/
Not sure what your problem with Discover is. It uses PackageKit under the hood, which hooks into APT (as well as other distros’ package management).
If you want to, you can disable Flatpak and Snap support in Discover’s settings and then it is effectively just an APT frontend.