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--- packages:add_local_directory_to_apt_sources.list [2017/04/03 14:23] – created peter
+++ packages:add_local_directory_to_apt_sources.list [2019/12/01 11:45] (current) – removed peter
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-====== Packages - Add local directory to apt sources.list ======
-. Create the directory to put all the deb files, for example /home/foo/debs:
-<code bash>
-mkdir /home/foo/debs
-</code>
-. Put all the deb files into the directory:
-<code bash>
-mv /home/foo/Desktop/*.deb /home/foo/debs
-</code>
-. Check the current priorities and section for the package, find entry named Section and Priority:
-<code bash>
-dpkg --info example_1.2.3-1@i386.deb
-</code>
-This returns some information including Section and Priority:
-Here is some of the info:
-Package: example
-Section: editors
-Priority: optional
-Homepage: http://www.example.com/
-. Create an override file.
-An Override file is used to override the default Priority and Section setting of the package.  An Override file contains 3 columns: Package, Priority, Section.  Package is the name of the Package, Priority is low, medium, high or optional and Section is the section to which it belongs.
-Example of override file content:
-<file>
-## Override
-#Package priority section
-example low editors
-</file>
-. Create Packages.gz inside /home/foo/debs
-<code bash>
-cd /home/foo/debs
-sudo dpkg-scanpackages . override | gzip -c9 > Packages.gz
-</code>
-. If you are too lazy to do the override file, you do not have to.  Just change the "dpkg --scanpackages" command above to this:
-<code bash>
-cd /home/foo/debs
-sudo dpkg-scanpackages . /dev/null | gzip -c9 > Packages.gz
-</code>
-If you follow this path, ignore step 4 and 5.
-. Add this line to /etc/apt/sources.list
-<code>
-deb file:///home/foo/debs /
-</code>
-. Re-synchronize the package index files from their sources
-<code bash>
-sudo apt-get update
-</code>
-. Install your application:
-<code bash>
-sudo apt-get install example
-</code>
-This has just created a local file repository.
-Apt will fetch the deb files from your local file directory also.