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Apparently it is hard to keep up with kernel developments. VMware has problems. Latest one does not work with openSUSE 11.2 kernel (and Ubuntu kernels, and other kernels). I guess that’s the difference between supporting enterprise versions (Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, SLES, RHEL) and not the newer (not to say leading edge) distributions (Ubuntu > 8.04, [...]

In Ubuntu: cd /location/of/repo sudo dpkg-scanpackages . /dev/null | gzip -9c > Packages.gz then configure /etc/apt/sources.list.d/local.list: deb file:/location/of/repo/ / or /etc/apt/sources.list.d/local.list: deb http://myserver/location/of/repo/ / In openSUSE: cd /location/of/rpm/repo createrepo . and then sudo zypper sa http://myserver/location/of/rpm/repo My_Local In both cases, there are ways to crypto-sign the repositories, but probably optional if only accessible locally.