How To Install local-apt-repository on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install local-apt-repository
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is local-apt-repository
local-apt-repository is:
With this package installed, every Debian package (i.e. a *.deb file) dropped into /srv/local-apt-repository (which you need to create first) will be available to apt.
This package does not provide an apt repository to be used by other hosts. For that, look at more serious repository solutions like reprepro and apt-ftparchive.
There are three methods to install local-apt-repository
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install local-apt-repository Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install local-apt-repository
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install local-apt-repository
Install local-apt-repository Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install local-apt-repository
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install local-apt-repository
Install local-apt-repository Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install local-apt-repository
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install local-apt-repository
How To Uninstall local-apt-repository on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the local-apt-repository
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove local-apt-repository
Uninstall local-apt-repository And Its Dependencies
To uninstall local-apt-repository
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove local-apt-repository
Remove local-apt-repository Configurations and Data
To remove local-apt-repository
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge local-apt-repository
Remove local-apt-repository configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove local-apt-repository
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge local-apt-repository
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install local-apt-repository
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.