Install Aptly 1.6.0

Debian / Ubuntu

aptly package is available in Debian as well as Ubuntu.

If you would like to install a upstream release of aptly with a different version than then Debian / Ubuntu package, aptly can be installed by adding a new repository to /etc/apt/sources.list.d/aptly.list:

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

Where DIST needs to be changed to the distribution: buster / bullseye / bookworm (Debian) or focal / jammy / noble (Ubuntu).

Then, import the GPG key as follows:

For releases older than Debian 12 and Ubuntu 22.04, create the directory first:

$ sudo mkdir -p /etc/apt/keyrings; sudo chmod 755 /etc/apt/keyrings

Download and install key:

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

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

# apt-get update && apt-get install aptly

CI Builds for Debian

If you would like to use the CI Builds (formerly known as nightly) to test the latest development version of aptly (unstable!), use the following APT source:

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

Where DIST needs to be changed to the distribution: buster / bullseye / bookworm (Debian) or focal / jammy / noble (Ubuntu).

Mac OS X

Mac OS X: Installation using Homebrew:

$ brew install aptly

Binary Releases

Releases for binary distributions (depend almost only on libc) for Debian, CentOS, MacOS X & FreeBSD are available.

The archive contains the binary executable, man page and shell completion (bash, zsh):

$ unzip aptly_1.6.0_linux_amd64.zip
Archive:  aptly_1.6.0_linux_amd64.zip
   creating: aptly_1.6.0_linux_amd64/
   creating: aptly_1.6.0_linux_amd64/man/
 extracting: aptly_1.6.0_linux_amd64/man/aptly.1.gz
  inflating: aptly_1.6.0_linux_amd64/README.rst
  inflating: aptly_1.6.0_linux_amd64/LICENSE
  inflating: aptly_1.6.0_linux_amd64/AUTHORS
   creating: aptly_1.6.0_linux_amd64/completion/
   creating: aptly_1.6.0_linux_amd64/completion/bash_completion.d/
  inflating: aptly_1.6.0_linux_amd64/completion/bash_completion.d/aptly
   creating: aptly_1.6.0_linux_amd64/completion/zsh/
   creating: aptly_1.6.0_linux_amd64/completion/zsh/vendor-completions/
  inflating: aptly_1.6.0_linux_amd64/completion/zsh/vendor-completions/_aptly
  inflating: aptly_1.6.0_linux_amd64/aptly

$ aptly_1.6.0_linux_amd64/aptly version
aptly version: 1.6.0