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Ubuntu Software Center doesn't work with local/mirrored repositories.
I mirror the entire Ubuntu repositories to a hard drive every month to
use it with a local HTTP server to serve some Ubuntu PCs that have no
access to the Internet at all, just to an air-gapped local network. When
using the command line via "apt update" and "apt upgrade", everything
works perfectly fine, I'm able to update, upgrade, install and remove
packages like if I were connected directly to Canonical servers.
The problem is that the Ubuntu Software Center doesn't work in this
setting. It only says that I'm disconnected from the Internet and it
doesn't recognize the local HTTP repository that's configured and the
rest of the system uses just fine. Users complain because they prefer to
use the more intuitive GUI and that's understandable, but I don't know
what else to do so I think this is a bug and no Google result seems to
know how to fix this.
OS: Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS right now, but the problem was present in past
versions also.
What I expect to happen: the Ubuntu Software Center recognizes the local
HTTP repositories and works.
What instead happens: the Ubuntu Software Center doesn't work because it
says I'm disconnected from the Internet.
** Affects: gnome-software (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Ubuntu Software Center doesn't work with local/mirrored repositories
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1958021
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