How to download and add .deb files to local repository

Lazybob

11/11/23, 12:19 PM

I'm trying to install a local repository on a local network, and then use that local repo to serve them to other machines on the same local network.

My setup is this:

one laptop as a server: where I have an Ubuntu 22.04 server installed, I've installed Nginx on it so that I can serve the files to the network.
multiple laptops: also Ubuntu 22.04 servers where I've changed the /etc/apt/sources.list to point only to the local server that I've. like this:

deb [trusted=yes] HTTP://SERVER_LOCAL_IP/debs/amd64/ /

And also I've run apt update after that I changed the file.

Now what I'm doing to download the .deb files is this:

cd /var/www/html/debs/amd64

sudo apt --download-only -o Dir::Cache="/var/www/html/debs/amd64" -o Dir::Cache::archives="./" install package_name

dpkg-scanpackages . /dev/null > Release

The current use case I have is installing ubuntu-desktop-minimal since all of the client machines have only the Ubuntu server, and I would like to have a GUI on them. But in the future, I would also to add more.

But for some reason when I do this I'm always getting the error of missing dependencies or package not found.

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Artur Meinild

11/14/23, 7:23 AM

Could you please include the exact error message you get - in your post? Thanks

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