First of all, log in to your Debian server with root user and update the system using command:

apt-get update && apt-get upgrade

Then, install the essential packages which are needed to setup local repository using command:

apt-get install build-essential

We need to setup a web server to server all packages to the clients. In our case, let us install Apache web server. To install apache, run:

apt-get install apache2

To test if Apache is working, open up your web browser and navigate to: http:<IP-Address>. You should see the following output: ===== Create A directory to store all packages ===== Create a directory called packages under apache root document folder i.e /var/www/html. <code bash> mkdir /var/www/html/packages </code> Now, create additional directories under /var/www/html/packages/ to save packages depending upon your system’s architecture. For example, If you use 32 bit systems, create a directory called “i386″ or if you use 64 bit systems, create “amd64″ directory. You can keep both directories and serve packages to different architecture systems at the same time. Here, I am using 64 bit systems in my LAN, so I am going to create a directory called “amd64″ under /var/www/html/packages/ directory. <code bash> mkdir /var/www/html/packages/amd64 </code> ===== Copying all DEB files from Debian installation media ===== Mount the first CD/DVD and copy all .deb packages to /var/www/packages/amd64/ directory from your CD/DVD. <code bash> mount /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom find /media/cdrom/pool/ -name “*.deb” -exec cp {} /var/www/html/packages/amd64 \; </code> After copying all deb files, unmount the first DVD using the following command. <code bash> umount /media/cdrom </code> Again mount all remaining CD/DVD one by one and copy the .deb files as shown above. To verify the files, navigate to http://192.168.1.150/packages/amd64/ from your browser. You will see all packages of your Debian DVD’s. Here 192.168.1.150 is my Debian 8 server’s IP address. Index of -packages-amd64 - Google Chrome_002