Aptly: package in repo but can't be installed

I'm setting up a repo by doing the following:

aptly repo create sample_repo aptly repo add sample_repo neuboxdb-0.9.0-amd64.deb aptly snapshot create sample_snapshot from repo sample_repo aptly publish snapshot sample_snapshot aptly serve 

The web server starts on port 8080.

I then add the following to sources.list on a x86-64 machine:

deb [arch=amd64] address of server:8080/ xenial universe 

Next I run:

sudo apt-get update 

Which returns:

W: ip]:8080/dists/xenial/InRelease: Signature by key EB45DBC87E77FEA9CB66C1D13FB76626D9985912 uses weak digest algorithm (SHA1) 

But when I run:

sudo apt-get install neuboxdb 

I get:

E: Unable to locate package neuboxdb 

Looking in /var/lib/apt/lists on the machine I'm installing onto, I see an InRelease file corresponding to the server, but no amd64_Packages file.

On the repo machine, ~/.aptly/public/dists/xenial/main/binary-amd64 contains an entry for neuboxdb.

What's not right with this?

1 Answer

Such a nice tool to know about thank you. Well, could you compare these:

sources.list on on x86-64 machine:

deb [arch=amd64] address of server]:8080/ xenial universe 

...

On the repo machine,

~/.aptly/public/dists/xenial/main/binary-amd64 

See the component, it is not the same, so your sources.list should have something like:

deb [arch=amd64] address of server]:8080/ xenial main