diff --git a/pacman/aur/aur.go b/pacman/aur/aur.go
index 0843536..99efd0e 100644
--- a/pacman/aur/aur.go
+++ b/pacman/aur/aur.go
@@ -205,7 +205,26 @@ func (p *Package) PkgMakeDepends() []string { return p.MakeDepends }
 
 // DownloadURL returns the URL for downloading the PKGBUILD tarball.
 func (p *Package) DownloadURL() string {
-	return fmt.Sprintf("https://aur.archlinux.org%s", p.URLPath)
+	urlPath := p.URLPath
+	if p.PackageBase != p.Name {
+		urlPath = p.downloadURLWithName(p.PackageBase)
+	}
+	return fmt.Sprintf("https://aur.archlinux.org%s", urlPath)
+}
+
+func (p *Package) downloadURLWithName(baseName string) string {
+	fromIdx := strings.LastIndex(p.URLPath, "/")
+	if fromIdx == -1 {
+		panic(fmt.Sprintf("expect package URLPath to contain '/', got %q", p.URLPath))
+	}
+
+	filename := p.URLPath[fromIdx+1:]
+	toIdx := strings.Index(filename, ".")
+	if toIdx == -1 {
+		panic(fmt.Sprintf("expect package URLPath to contain '.' in package name, got %q", p.URLPath))
+	}
+
+	return p.URLPath[:fromIdx+1] + baseName + filename[toIdx:]
 }
 
 const (
diff --git a/pacman/aur/aur_test.go b/pacman/aur/aur_test.go
index 70997ef..a1ef87e 100644
--- a/pacman/aur/aur_test.go
+++ b/pacman/aur/aur_test.go
@@ -220,3 +220,14 @@ func TestDownloadURL(z *testing.T) {
 		z.Errorf("download url incorrect: %s", i.DownloadURL())
 	}
 }
+
+func TestDownloadURLWithBaseName(z *testing.T) {
+	i, err := Read("transgui-qt")
+	if err != nil {
+		z.Errorf("unexpected error: %s", err)
+		z.FailNow()
+	}
+	if i.DownloadURL() != "https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/snapshot/transgui.tar.gz" {
+		z.Errorf("download url incorrect: %s", i.DownloadURL())
+	}
+}
diff --git a/repo/down.go b/repo/down.go
index ff2747b..d723b2d 100644
--- a/repo/down.go
+++ b/repo/down.go
@@ -56,7 +56,11 @@ func Download(destdir string, extract bool, clobber bool, pkgnames []string) err
 // DownloadPackages downloads the given AUR packages, printing messages for each one.
 func DownloadPackages(pkgs aur.Packages, destdir string, extract bool, clobber bool) error {
 	for _, p := range pkgs {
-		term.Printf("Downloading: %s\n", p.Name)
+		pkgname := p.Name
+		if p.PackageBase != "" {
+			pkgname = p.PackageBase
+		}
+		term.Printf("Downloading: %s\n", pkgname)
 		download := DownloadTarballAUR
 		if extract {
 			download = DownloadExtractAUR
@@ -90,6 +94,7 @@ func DownloadExtractAUR(ap *aur.Package, destdir string, clobber bool) error {
 		}
 	}
 
+	term.Debugf("Fetching URL: %s\n", ap.DownloadURL())
 	response, err := http.Get(ap.DownloadURL())
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
@@ -115,7 +120,11 @@ func DownloadTarballAUR(ap *aur.Package, destdir string, clobber bool) error {
 	}
 
 	url := ap.DownloadURL()
-	of := ap.Name + ".tar.gz"
+	filename := ap.Name
+	if ap.PackageBase != "" {
+		filename = ap.PackageBase
+	}
+	of := filename + ".tar.gz"
 
 	// Make sure we don't clobber anything.
 	if !clobber {
@@ -124,10 +133,12 @@ func DownloadTarballAUR(ap *aur.Package, destdir string, clobber bool) error {
 			return err
 		}
 		if ex {
+			term.Debugf("Skipping download: package file already exists: %s\n", of)
 			return ErrPkgFileExists
 		}
 	}
 
+	term.Debugf("Fetching URL: %s\n", url)
 	response, err := http.Get(url)
 	if err != nil {
 		return err