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Create a local APT repository

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Create a local APT repository

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- [Scott] Over some previous episodes, we've seen how to create our own packages and how to add other people's repositories to our system, and so, the next logical step is to learn about hosting our own repository with our own packages. There are a few kinds of repositories we can create for a Debian system, including binary and source repositories, which are designed for pre-compiled software and source code, respectively, and there's a division in the ways that repositories are offered up. There's the idea of a trivial repository, one that satisfies the bare minimum for a package manager to retrieve software from, and an official archive, one that's formally correct and which offers all of the features that a package manager supports and which is the kind of repository offered by the distribution mirrors. We can create all of these kinds of repositories manually, or we can use various tools to create them for us. In this episode, so we can start to understand the basics of how…

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