[plug] how to add a package cache for debian/ubuntu

mark at musicalstoat.co.uk mark at musicalstoat.co.uk
Wed Jul 2 11:02:18 WST 2008


On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 10:46:57AM +0800, Russell Steicke wrote:
> apt-proxy works well.  You run apt-proxy on one machine, and point at
> it in /etc/apt/sources.list from the others (including from the
> machine running apt-proxy).  It caches the debs for you in
> /var/cache/apt-proxy/archive.  You don't copy debs around yourself:
> let each machine fetch them from apt-proxy over your local network.
> 
In addition to this the apt-proxy package provides a tool called
apt-proxy-import which you can use to import the debs that you have
already downloaded and are storing in your apt cache so they can be used
again.

-- 
Mark



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