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

[Alexis Huxley <ahuxley@gmx.net>]

> 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?

Look at
http://dione.no-ip.org/~alexis/STABLE/advocacy/ahdg/ahdg/node4.html#SECTION00450000000000000000
and
http://dione.no-ip.org/~alexis/STABLE/advocacy/ahdg/ahdg/node2.html#SECTION00242000000000000000

Alexis