Making Local Repository

[Rog131]

Re: Making Local Repository

I'm using the local repo to examine/install packges when there are lot of packages with dependencies not pointing to the official repositories. i.e when the "dpkg -i *.deb" doesn't look like a healthy option.

[OneLine]

Step by Step

Ubuntu community docs: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/Personal


Needed: dpkg-dev

Description: Debian package development tools
This package provides the development tools (including dpkg-source)
required to unpack, build and upload Debian source packages.

The dpkg-scanpackages is part of the dpkg-dev.

:~$ apt-file search dpkg-scanpackages
debian-cd: /usr/share/debian-cd/tools/my-dpkg-scanpackages
dpkg-dev: /usr/bin/dpkg-scanpackages

Steps

0) Open a terminal/konsole window to the deb package directory.

At here it is: Local_repo

1) Who am I ?

Konsole:

whoami

Output at here:

oneline

2) Where am I ?

Konsole:

pwd

Output at here:

/home/oneline/Local_repo

3) Write the Packages.gz list

Konsole - Note the dot !

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

Output at here:

dpkg-scanpackages: warning: Packages in archive but missing from override file:
dpkg-scanpackages: warning: kde-service-menu-video-thumb-fixer thumbflow
dpkg-scanpackages: info: Wrote 2 entries to output Packages file.

4) Add the local repository to the sources list

Konsole/Krunner (oneline-personal-repository)

kdesudo kate /etc/apt/sources.list.d/oneline-personal-repository.list

Add there the location of the local repository - Note the dot ! At here:

deb file:/home/oneline/Local_repo ./

save and exit.

The software properties should show the information.



5) Update the package database.

sudo apt-get update

6) Install the wanted packages.

Log of sudo apt-get install kde-service-menu-video-thumb-fixer thumbflow
Mon Mar 26 14:37:07 2012

Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...

The following extra packages will be installed:
perlmagick sng
Suggested packages:
pngcrush pngmeta gif2png
The following NEW packages will be installed:
kde-service-menu-video-thumb-fixer perlmagick sng thumbflow
0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 8 not upgraded.
Need to get 202 kB/293 kB of archives.
After this operation, 902 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?

WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
kde-service-menu-video-thumb-fixer thumbflow
Install these packages without verification [y/N]?

There are warnings as the packages are unauthenticated.