Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of MakeLocalUbuntuRepo

Timestamp:

09/03/14 12:12:35 (10 years ago)

Author:

rrhain@bbn.com

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MakeLocalUbuntuRepo

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+{{{
+1.Install dpkg-dev
+2.Put the packages in a directory
+3.Create a script that will scan the packages and create a file apt-get update can read
+4. Add a line to your sources.list pointing at your repository
+
+Install dpkg-dev
+
+Type in a terminal
+
+sudo apt-get install dpkg-dev
+
+The Directory
+
+Create a directory where you will keep your packages. For this example, we'll use /usr/local/mydebs.
+
+sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/mydebs
+
+Now move your packages into the directory you've just created.
+
+Previously downloaded Packages are generally stored on your system in the /var/cache/apt/archives directory. If you have installed apt-cacher you will have additional packages stored in its /packages directory.
+
+The Script update-mydebs
+
+It's a simple three liner:
+
+#! /bin/bash
+ cd /usr/local/mydebs
+ dpkg-scanpackages . /dev/null | gzip -9c > Packages.gz
+
+Cut and paste the above into gedit, and save it as update-mydebs in ~/bin. (the tilde '~' means your home directory. If ~/bin does not exist, create it: Ubuntu will put that directory in your PATH. It's a good place to put personal scripts). Next, make the script executable:
+
+chmod u+x ~/bin/update-mydebs
+
+How the script works:
+
+dpkg-scanpackages looks at all the packages in mydebs, and the output is compressed and written to a file (Packages.gz) that apt-get update can read (see below for a reference that explains this in excruciating detail). /dev/null is an empty file; it is a substitute for an override file which holds some additional information about the packages, which in this case is not really needed. See deb-override(5) if you want to know about it.
+
+Sources.list
+
+add the line
+
+deb file:/usr/local/mydebs ./
+
+to your /etc/apt/sources.list, and you're done.
+
+CD Option
+
+You can burn the directory containing the debs to a CD and use that as a repository as well (good for sharing between computers). To use the CD as a repository, simply run
+
+sudo apt-cdrom add
+
+Using the Repository
+
+Whenever you put a new deb in the mydebs directory, run
+
+sudo update-mydebs
+sudo apt-get update
+
+Now your local packages can be manipulated with Synaptic, aptitude and the apt commands: apt-get, apt-cache, etc. When you attempt to apt-get install, any dependencies will be resolved for you, as long as they can be met.
+
+Badly made packages will probably fail, but you won't have endured dpkg hell. 
+
+}}}