Local Repository

[snappwrench]

Ok, so I've been trying to setup a local repo and I have followed the How To by Rog131 as well as from Ubuntu's forum and still keep running into a wall. I've gotten everything setup and my local repo shows up in Synaptic but when I run "sudo apt-get update" it gives the following:

W: Failed to fetch file:/home/"usr"/packages/dists/maverick/debs_for_maverick/binary-amd64/Packages File not found

W: Failed to fetch file:/home/"usr"/packages/dists/maverick/debs_for_maverick/binary-i386/Packages File not found

E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

I have substituted the dist names for my own but still can't for the life of me get the packages to show up in Synaptic or Muon or update in Apt. I've tried this a few different ways and same outcome so any suggestions at this point would be greatly appreciated. Doing this on 11.10 amd64 - KDE 4.7

[Snowhog]

Assuming that you used the format:

deb file:///home/user/repository

Did you then follow that up with, from the command line, changing into the specified directory and running:

dpkg-scanpackages binary /dev/null | gzip -9c > binary/Packages.gz

See Trivial Repositories

[snappwrench]

I didn't change to the specified directory before I ran that so i'll give that a go. Just had to reload my OS due to a screw up so i'm starting fresh again but i'll post my progress as soon as I can. Thank you for the reply.

[OneLine]

An example: (Step by Step) http://www.kubuntuforums.net/showthr...pository/page2

[snappwrench]

Alright, it seems to have worked this time. Not sure if something was wrong with my last OS install because a few other things installed correctly this time as well so I just followed the How To as posted by Rog131 like before and apt/muon sees the packages I have added. I do have one other question though. When I run apt-get update it still gives me this at the end:

W: Failed to fetch file:/home/"usr"/packages/dists/maverick/debs_for_maverick/binary-i386/Packages File not found

even though I never created that "i386" folder. I'm sure apt is just looking for both types of arch's but my question is should I just create that folder in said location to satisfy apt?

[JontheEchidna]

It's just a warning, so I wouldn't worry about it unless the warnings really bug you.

[snappwrench]

yeah i figured, it doesn't bug. I'm just thinking if I add the folder it's looking for then it shouldn't show up."in theory" Really appreciate the replies, thank you.