Re: How can I make a local package repository available to apt?

[Martin Dickopp <martin-deb@zero-based.org>]

"Daniel Haude" <musbur@web.de> writes:

> Hi folks,
>  
> I've got a collection of a bunch of debian packages. They're not
> organized in any way, just a directory full of .debs. How can I make
> apt recognize this repository? I tried adding
>  
> deb file:/home/dh/download/debian/
>  
> to the apt-sources file, but of course apt balks at this as it is
> "malformed" because it doesn't have the sections listed after the
> directory. The .debs come from all sorts of sections of the official
> debian distro. How can I make this work?

You need to run dpkg-scanpackages. Read the Debian Repository HOWTO
<http://www.isotton.com/debian/docs/repository-howto/repository-howto.html>.

Martin


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