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I want to publish my software (e.g. some are drivers which means they are .so or .a, some are applications) as closed source.

I've rented a server, so that people can download my software from there. But I want people to be able to install my software using apt-get. I found that extras or partner repositories may be the way to do that.

Could anyone give me some advice on how I can publish my software as extras or partner repositories? I know PPAs need to published as open source.

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    If you already have a server, just host a repository on it. That's the simplest way here. – muru Aug 10 '17 at 06:02

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I found a tutorial went through step by step to create a ubuntu repository on your own server.

Some key points:

1.Set up web server

  • Install Apache2 

    sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install apache2
sudo apache2ctl -k restart

  • setup configure 

    cat /Install Apache2/000-default.conf

    make sure DocumentRoot /var/www is right

2. Create a deb package

  • build an executable named test

    mkdir -p test/usr/local/bin
cp test test/usr/local/bin
vi /test/DEBIAN/control

    enter

    Package: test  
Version: 1.0  
Section: custom  
Priority: optional  
Architecture: all  
Essential: no  
Installed-Size: 1024  
Maintainer: me 
Description: Print hello on the screen

    run

    dpkg-deb --build petbotTest

3. put deb into special directory tree for apt-get to know

    cd /var/www
    mkdir -p repo/ubuntu_14.04
    cp /your_path/test.deb /var/www/repo/ubuntu_14.04
    dpkg-scanpackages ubuntu_14.04 /dev/null | gzip -9c > ubuntu_14.04/Packages.gz

4. for download

  • In your client computer: 

    sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://YOUR_SERVER_IP/repo ubuntu_14.04/" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/test_repo.list'
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install test

5. to remove

sudo dpkg -P test
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