aptly

Aptly is a swiss army knife for Debian repository management.

Documentation is available at http://www.aptly.info/. For support please use mailing list aptly-discuss.

Aptly features: ("+" means planned 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
• mirror repositories "as-is" (without resigning with user's key) (+)
• support for yum repositories (+)

Current limitations:

• translations are not supported yet

Install Stable Version

To install aptly on Debian/Ubuntu, add new repository to /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb http://repo.aptly.info/ squeeze main

And import key that is used to sign the release:

$ apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys EE727D4449467F0E

After that you can install aptly as any other software package:

$ apt-get update
$ apt-get install aptly

Don't worry about squeeze part in repo name: aptly package should work on Debian squeeze+, Ubuntu 10.0+. Package contains aptly binary, man page and bash completion.

Other Binaries

Binary executables (depends almost only on libc) are available for download from GitHub Releases.

Install CI Version

More recent versions are available as CI builds (development, might be unstable).

Debian GNU/Linux

Install the following APT key:

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

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: buster, bullseye, bookworm, focal, jammy, noble

Contributing

Please follow detailed documentation in CONTRIBUTING.md.

Integrations

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:

• Docker container with aptly inside by Mike Purvis
• Docker container with aptly and nginx by Artem Smirnov

With configuration management systems:

• Chef cookbook by Aaron Baer (Heavy Water Operations, LLC)
• Puppet module by Government Digital Services
• Puppet module by TubeMogul
• SaltStack Formula by Forrest Alvarez and Brian Jackson
• Ansible role by Tom Paine

CLI for aptly API:

• Ruby aptly CLI/library by Zane Williamson
• Python aptly CLI (good for CI) by Tim Susa

GUI for aptly API:

• Python aptly GUI (via pyqt5) by Cedric Hnyda

Scala sbt:

• sbt aptly plugin by Arup Malakar