First gather all the packages that you want to put in your repository. I normally install a fresh Ubuntu on vmware to start with. Then I update the installation and install the packages I need. Once done, I take all required packages from apt cache and use those (so that I have full upgrade path with required dependencies). For the purposes of this tutorial, let’s pretend we want to mirros apache2 with all dependencies and an upgrade of Ubuntu install (a snapshot you could say).
First install Ubuntu on vmware, then start it, login and perform the following
# go to root sudo su - # update list and upgrade the installation aptitude update && aptitude upgrade aptitude install dpkg-dev # install apache2 aptitude install apache2 # create a tree and move the packages mkdir -p /tmp/repo/dists/jaunty/main/binary-i386 mv /var/cache/apt/archives/*.deb /tmp/repo/dists/jaunty/main/binary-i386 # and now a nasty hack to fix the fact that apt cache renamed all colons (:) to %3a string :/ cd /tmp/repo/dists/jaunty/main/binary-i386 ls *.deb |grep '%3a' |while read FN; do NEWFN=`echo $FN |sed 's/%3a/:/g'`; echo $NEWFN; mv $FN $NEWFN; done ls *.deb |grep '%3A' |while read FN; do NEWFN=`echo $FN |sed 's/%3A/:/g'`; echo $NEWFN; mv $FN $NEWFN; done # run dpkg to create the package list (Packages.gz) cd /tmp/repo dpkg-scanpackages -m dists/jaunty/main/binary-i386 |gzip -c > dists/jaunty/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz # ok, now copy of the repo directory to your webserver # if on the same server cd /tmp mv repo /var/www # if on another server - replace USERRNAME and IP with actual ssh username and IP scp -r /tmp/repo USERNAME@IP:/var/www # if you get problems with scp copy permissions scp -r /tmp/repo USERNAME@IP:/tmp #login to the IP server and perform this on it mv /tmp/repo /var/www
That’s done 
You have a nice basic working repository. Just note that if dependencies don’t resolve, you will have to navigate to the directory where your repositories are on the webserver and perform the nasty %3a hack fix from above there as well. Now, on the machine where you want to use the repository you would do this:
sudo su - vi /etc/apt/sources.list # comment out all the entries here that are not commented out # I normally comment out using 3 ### so that I know which lines were the ones I made changes to # Now just above the 1st entry you commented out (starting with deb) insert this line: deb http://IP_OF_REPO_SERVER/repo/ jaunty main # now save the file and perform the below to update the packages list aptitude update # and that's done. Now if you do any of the below, aptitude will use your repository # 'fraid as this is a basic one, it will have problems with trusting your packages and ask for extra confirmation before install # but that shouldn't be a problemaptitude upgrade aptitude install apache2
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