Making Local Repository

[Rog131]

This is based on APT HOWTO
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/ap.../index.en.html
===> 2.2 How to use APT locally

There is also > Ubuntu Documentation: Personal Repositories


Note
user is your log in name.
gutsy is part of Kubuntu code name (hoary, breezy, dapper, edgy, feisty, gutsy, hardy...)

Kubuntu wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kubuntu


1) Make folders:
/home/user/debs/
and
/home/user/dists/gutsy/debs_for_gutsy/binary-i386/

2) Copy .deb files to the /home/user/debs/

3) Generate package info:

a) if your debs are in the /home/user/debs. You can use in the konsole (konsole is in the home folder - /home/user/):

dpkg-scanpackages debs /dev/null | gzip > /home/user/dists/gutsy/debs_for_gutsy/binary-i386/Packages.gz

b) or full path to the debs. Packages are in the /home/user/debs

dpkg-scanpackages /home/user/debs /dev/null | sed s/"\/home\/user\/"//g | \
gzip > /home/user/dists/gutsy/debs_for_gutsy/binary-i386/Packages.gz

4) Add your local repository in the /etc/apt/sources.list

Alt + F2 and type kdesudo kate /etc/apt/sources.list
(kdesu kate /etc/apt/sources.list)
Add: deb file:///home/user/ gutsy debs_for_gutsy

or

Synaptic:
Settings > Repositories

URI: file:///home/user/
Distribution: gutsy
Sections(s): debs_for_gutsy

or

Adept:
Adept > Manage Repositories > | Third-Party Software | > Add


4b) Alternative to the 4, using sources.list.d

You can create mysources.list (or whatever.list) file in the /etc/apt/sources.list.d/:
(kdesudo kate /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mysources.list)

And add: deb file:///home/user/ gutsy debs_for_gutsy

man sources.list(5)

SOURCES.LIST.D

The /etc/apt/sources.list.d directory provides a way to add sources.list entries in seperate files that end with .list. The format is the same as for the regular sources.list file.

5) Update package lists.

6) Install (by Apt/Aptitude/Adept/Synaptic/Whatever).


When you have new debs -> Do 2 and 3 then 5 and 6.


Dpkg/Apt/Aptitude/Adept/Synaptic

FAQ: Package Managers

Dpkg
dpkg - package manager for Debian.

Apt
apt - Advanced Package Tool. APT is a management system for software packages.

Aptitude
A highly configurable console front-end for Debian APT. Aptitude is a text-based interface to the Debian GNU/Linux package system.

Adept
Adept is a GUI to the Advanced Packaging Tool for KDE. Adept is developed by Peter Ročkai and is sponsored by Canonical Ltd. through the Kubuntu project.

Synaptic
Synaptic is a graphical package management program for apt. It provides the same features as the apt-get command line utility with a GUI front-end based on Gtk+.


GDebi KDE
https://launchpad.net/gdebi

From Kubuntu 7.10 - Gutsy Gibbon
http://kubuntu.org/announcements/7.10-release.php

New for Kubuntu 7.10 is a KDE front end to the amazing APT package manager for third party packages. GDebi KDE makes it easier to install Debian based packages (.deb files) onto your system with just a click of the mouse. No more command line hassles when trying to manually install a package, and GDebi KDE even takes care of those pesky dependencies so you don't have to. Using GDebi KDE is simple, go to the directory where you have downloaded your package and just click on the file. Installation takes off, and you are on your way to a new application.

You need:
gdebi-core, Simple tool to install deb files

gdebi lets you install local deb packages resolving and installing
its dependencies. apt does the same, but only for remote (http, ftp)
located packages.

and
gdebi-kde, Simple tool to install deb files

This package contains the KDE user interface.

Note
gdebi does not support multi-package installations
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...ebi/+bug/37649

gdebi should search for .debs in current folder
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...bi/+bug/134331


Links:

Topic: OpenOffice 2.2.3
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3086717.0

Topic: Adept for offline installation
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3087546.0

Topic: FAQ: Kubuntu without internet connection
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3085805.0

Bugs in gdebi in ubuntu
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdebi

[computador]

Re: Making Local Repository


I follow the guide but when I use apt-get install after answer the question (yes/no) it don't find the file.

Impossible to find file:///home/user/packages//home/user/packages/debs/opera_9.26-20080218.6-shared-qt_en_i386.deb File not found

I didn't use the same folders as the guide (after user I make another directory named packages and hardy instead of gutsy)

"I make this steps"
mkdir /home/user/packages/debs/
and
mkdir /home/user/packages/dists/hardy/debs_for_hardy/binary-i386/

2) Copy .deb files to the /home/user/packages/debs/

3) Generate package info:
:~$ dpkg-scanpackages /home/user/packages/debs /dev/null | gzip > /home/user/packages/dists/hardy/debs_for_hardy/binary-i386/Packages.gz

4) Add your local repository in the /etc/apt/sources.list
file:///home/user/packages/ hardy debs_for_hardy

Tell me if I make a mistake because I don't find it.

[Rog131]

Re: Making Local Repository

Tell me if I make a mistake because I don't find it.

No, you are not making mistake.

If you are using full path in the "Generate package info" then working command is:

dpkg-scanpackages /home/user/packages/debs /dev/null | sed s/"\/home\/user\/packages\/"//g | \
gzip > /home/user/packages/dists/hardy/debs_for_hardy/binary-i386/Packages.gz

Sed is used to remove /home/user/packages/ from the Packages.gz.

sed - stream editor for filtering and transforming text

Without sed, package manager is trying to find:

/home/user/packages//home/user/packages/debs/opera_9.26-20080218.6-shared-qt_en_i386.deb

Added to the How to.

[computador]

Re: Making Local Repository


Thanks

[RealG187]

Re: Making Local Repository

mpg@MIKED5:~$ sudo dpkg-scanpackages debs /dev/null | gzip > /home/mpg/dists/hardy/debs_for_hardy/binary-i386/Packages.gz
[sudo] password for mpg:
sudo: dpkg-scanpackages: command not found
mpg@MIKED5:~$ [/quotre]

It doesnt work, how come

[Rog131]

Re: Making Local Repository

/usr/bin/dpkg-scanpackages is a part of the package: dpkg-dev

package building tools for Debian

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

[RealG187]

Re: Making Local Repository

Okay thanks.

Should I use this thread or this one for future discussion about this?

[hallve_revera]

Re: Making Local Repository

i didnt work for me
when i input "sudo apt-get update"
the result is the repository from the file is ignored...
how do i fix it...
thanks
im using kubuntu intrepid live usb

[Rog131]

Re: Making Local Repository

i didnt work for me
when i input "sudo apt-get update"
the result is the repository from the file is ignored...

Tell a bit more What was the error message(s) ??

Did you get something like this?

sudo apt-get update

...
Ign file: jaunty/debs_for_jaunty Packages
Err file: jaunty/debs_for_jaunty Packages
File not found
...
W: Failed to fetch file:/home/<YOUR_USERNAME_HERE>/packages/dists/jaunty/debs_for_jaunty/binary-i386/Packages
File not found

E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
sudo died with exit status 100

That is because apt can't find the package index file - Packages.gz - from the directory: /home/<YOUR_USERNAME_HERE>/packages/dists/jaunty/debs_for_jaunty/binary-i386.

[Rog131]

Re: Making Local Repository

Personal Repository - kde servicemenu

Wrapping the local/personal repository to a service menu: http://www.kubuntuforums.net/showthr...-Dolphin/page3



Right clicking a .deb package...



Package list is wrapped up...
------>If the root rights are needed...
------------->What package manager will be used to examine and install the packages...


Package database is updated....


... installation - are you sure.

[kyonides]

Re: Making Local Repository

Would it also work with muon?

[GreyGeek]

Re: Making Local Repository

Where would the sources.list be located for the personal repository, and if it uses the /etc/apt/sources.list I assume it would/could access all of the packages in that list?

[Rog131]

Re: Making Local Repository

Muon

Would it also work with muon?

You tell me


At here.

With the Maverick Muon the installation stops to the notification screen

after that, nothing seems to happen.

With the Lucid and an older Muon (1.0 alpha 1) the installation was succesful.

The developer is telling:

...we can see where we stand for Kubuntu 11.04. It’ll be worth the wait...

kdesudo <application>

The servicemenu is simply making an application call with the kdesudo. If you want to use the konsole/apt-get you could give the konsole as the "package manager" and the service menu will start the konsole with the root rights.


If you don't want to start anything with the service menu, give a non application name to the question: "What package manager would you like to use ?"

non application name = null, oops,hi-there, ...

rog@ammu2500ll:~$ null
null: command not found
rog@ammu2500ll:~$ oops
oops: command not found
rog@ammu2500ll:~$ hi-there
hi-there: command not found

[Rog131]

Re: Making Local Repository

Not a Double D

Where would the sources.list be located for the personal repository...

Rule of thumb

Don't edit (mess) the original setting files if possible - use the separate additional (d directory) files.

man sources.list

SOURCES.LIST.D

The /etc/apt/sources.list.d directory provides a way to add sources.list entries in separate files. The
format is the same as for the regular sources.list file. File names need to end with .list and may only
contain letters (a-z and A-Z), digits (0-9), underscore (_), hyphen (-) and period (.) characters. Otherwise they will be silently ignored.

(Earlier > /etc/sudoers.d/ (and all those d directories))


The service menu is adding the sources info to the /etc/apt/sources.list.d/$USER-personal-repository.

$USER = your username, konsole:

echo $USER

[GreyGeek]

Re: Making Local Repository

The service menu is adding the sources info to the /etc/apt/sources.list.d/$USER-personal-repository.

"Ah, thank you", says GreyGeek with appreciation, genuflecting to superior knowledge!

Wouldn't the best use for this be for those deb package downloaded from non-repository sites?