How TO: Custom repo (local or remote)

[Velox Letum]

Wonderful guide! Worked perfectly for me and helped me achieve a few things I was wondering how to do. Thanks! =)

[caprajack]

Ok

[Brando569]

i was actually wondering about this a few days ago, awesome guide! really helpful. time to make my download directory my repo directory

edit:

just tried this and sadly mine doesnt work, it wouldnt matter if the directory is hidden would it? i got a few errors when i ran autorepo:

** Packages in archive but missing from override file: **
kubuntu-pkgmenu libdvdcss2 mtaskbar-0.7 superkaramba

Wrote 4 entries to output Packages file.
Prototype mismatch: sub main::getopt: none vs (@) at /usr/bin/dpkg-scansources line 116.

mtaskbar doesnt even exist in the directory i dunno how that got in there but the other three are there and are deb packages, the rest are tar.gz or bz2 files. synaptic didnt give me any errors that it couldnt find/access the directory any idea whats up?

[ryan76]

I'm having a problem with setting it up:

The repository is in

/home/repo

I put this in sources.list:

deb file:///home/ repo/

Synaptic finds the .deb file but when I hit Apply, I get this error message:

W: Failed to fetch file:///home/./libdvdcss2_1.2.9-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb
File not found

What should I be putting in sources.list to make it work???

[phanboy_iv]

I'm having a problem with setting it up:

The repository is in

/home/repo

I put this in sources.list:

deb file:///home/ repo/

Synaptic finds the .deb file but when I hit Apply, I get this error message:

W: Failed to fetch file:///home/./libdvdcss2_1.2.9-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb
File not found

What should I be putting in sources.list to make it work???

Yeah, I had the exact same problem. Can someone please help?

[stimpson]

i've had the same problem as ryan76, a quick workaround:

#!/bin/bash
sudo dpkg-scanpackages repo /dev/null | gzip -9c > repo/Packages.gz
sudo dpkg-scansources repo /dev/null | gzip -9c > repo/Sources.gz

and execute 'autorepo' from /home instead of /home/repo

doesn't seem to be a nice solution though

[lreyes6]

Great guide... just great...

but...

jejeje there's allways a but

i'm kind of new for linux... what should i do if i want to make this on a dvd? so i dont duplicate space on my home computer? (with the deb file and intalling the file)

like a mobil repository!

thanks!

[peanut butter]

Hello, anyone know how i could download package deb files from the web using apt?

[kkass]

This is an excellent howto. The checkinstall tip makes it even better. I have my own remote repository working, but when I run 'apt-get install <some package>' I get the following warning:

WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!

How do I add information to authenticate them?

[artAlexion]

I got the following message in response to autorepo

 ** Packages in archive but missing from override file: **
  amarok amarok-arts amarok-gstreamer amarok-xine nerolinux tellico

 Wrote 6 entries to output Packages file.
Prototype mismatch: sub main::getopt: none vs (@) at /usr/bin/dpkg-scansources line 116.

synaptic seems to choke on the Packages file created

apt-get update

returns

Ign file: deb/ Release.gpg
Ign file: deb/ Release
Ign file: deb/ Package

but seems to want to use the packages contained there.

Any ideas?