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aptly

Aptly is a swiss army knife for Debian repository management.

Documentation is available at http://www.aptly.info/. For support please use open issues or discussions.

Aptly features:

make mirrors of remote Debian/Ubuntu repositories, limiting by components/architectures
take snapshots of mirrors at any point in time, fixing state of repository at some moment of time
publish snapshot as Debian repository, ready to be consumed by apt
controlled update of one or more packages in snapshot from upstream mirror, tracking dependencies
merge two or more snapshots into one
filter repository by search query, pulling dependencies when required
publish self-made packages as Debian repositories
REST API for remote access

Any contributions are welcome! Please see CONTRIBUTING.md.

Aptly can be installed on several operating systems.

Aptly is provided in the following debian packages:

aptly: Includes the main Aptly binary, man pages, and shell completions
aptly-api: A systemd service for the REST API, using the global /etc/aptly.conf
aptly-dbg: Debug symbols for troubleshooting

The packages can be installed on official Debian and Ubuntu distributions.

If a newer version (not available in Debian/Ubuntu) of aptly is required, upstream debian packages (built from git tags) can be installed as follows:

Install the following APT key (as root):

wget -O /etc/apt/keyrings/aptly.asc https://www.aptly.info/pubkey.txt

Define Release APT sources in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/aptly.list:

deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/aptly.asc] http://repo.aptly.info/release DIST main

Where DIST is one of: bullseye, bookworm, trixie, focal, jammy, noble

Install aptly packages:

apt-get update apt-get install aptly apt-get install aptly-api # REST API systemd service

For testing new features or bugfixes, recent builds are available as CI builds (built from master, may be unstable!) and can be installed as follows:

Define CI APT sources in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/aptly-ci.list:

deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/aptly.asc] http://repo.aptly.info/ci DIST main

Where DIST is one of: bullseye, bookworm, trixie, focal, jammy, noble

Note: same gpg key is used as for the Upstream Debian Packages.

Binary executables (depends almost only on libc) are available on GitHub Releases for:

Vagrant:

Vagrant configuration by Zane Williamson, allowing to bring two virtual servers, one with aptly installed and another one set up to install packages from repository published by aptly

Docker:

With configuration management systems:

CLI for aptly API:

GUI for aptly API:

Scala sbt:

Molior: