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How To Create a Debian/Ubuntu Repository for DEB Packages

Initial Setup Required Debian packages: reprepro Create a directory for the repository and its configuration: $ mkdir -p repo/conf Create a conf/distributions configuration file like this: Put my putinrepo script into the repo or next to it: "Export" the repo to create the metadata files for the empty repo: $ repo/putinrepo.sh $ tree repo repo ├── putinrepo.sh ├── conf │   └── distributions ├── db │   ├── checksums.db │   ├── contents.cache.db │   ├── packages.db │   ├── references.db │   ├── release.caches.db │   └── version └── dists ├── precise │   ├── main │   │   ├── binary-amd64 │   │   │   ├── Packages │   │   │   ├── Packages.gz │   │   │   └── Release │   │   ├── binary-armel │   │   │   ├── Packages │   │   │   ├── Packages.gz │   │   │   └── Release │   │   └── binary-i386 │   │   ├── Packages │   │   ├── Packages.gz │   │   └── Release │   └── Release ├── quantal │   ├──
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