diff --git a/meta/classes-recipe/rootfs.bbclass b/meta/classes-recipe/rootfs.bbclass
index 77e6aefc..2a2dead8 100644
--- a/meta/classes-recipe/rootfs.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes-recipe/rootfs.bbclass
@@ -370,14 +370,15 @@ rootfs_install_pkgs_isar_download() {
     # Command apt-get install do not cache packages from local repos
     # We can obtain non cached package URIs by recalling install command here
     # No need in export those files to dl_dir, so we can run it right after
+    # Sed below extracts URL and name of deb packages for curl to download.
     rootfs_cmd --bind "${ROOTFSDIR}/var/cache/apt/archives" /var/cache/apt/archives \
                --bind "${WORKDIR}/dpkg/lock" /var/lib/dpkg/lock \
                --bind "${WORKDIR}/dpkg/lock-frontend" /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend \
                --chdir "/var/cache/apt/archives" \
                ${ROOTFSDIR} \
                -- /usr/bin/sh -c "apt-get ${ROOTFS_APT_ARGS} --print-uris ${ROOTFS_PACKAGES} | \
-                                  sed -n \"s|^.*/\\(.*\\)_[^_]*_[^_]*\\.deb'.*|\\1|p\" | \
-                                  xargs -r apt-get download"
+                                  sed -En \"s/^'([^']+\.deb)' ([^ ]+).*/\1 -o \2/p\" | \
+                                  xargs -r -L1 curl"
 }
 
 ROOTFS_INSTALL_COMMAND += "${@ 'rootfs_install_clean_files' if (d.getVar('ROOTFS_CLEAN_FILES') or '').strip() else ''}"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/isar-mmdebstrap/isar-mmdebstrap.inc b/meta/recipes-core/isar-mmdebstrap/isar-mmdebstrap.inc
index 994da174..a8afb0a6 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/isar-mmdebstrap/isar-mmdebstrap.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/isar-mmdebstrap/isar-mmdebstrap.inc
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ inherit bootstrap
 inherit compat
 inherit deb-dl-dir
 
-DISTRO_BOOTSTRAP_BASE_PACKAGES += "locales apt"
+DISTRO_BOOTSTRAP_BASE_PACKAGES += "locales apt curl"
 DISTRO_BOOTSTRAP_BASE_PACKAGES:append:https-support = " ca-certificates"
 
 BOOTSTRAP_TMPDIR = "${WORKDIR}/tempdir"