Or you can use apt-proxy. You can choose 1 workstation as your apt-proxy server. Then point other machines to this apt-proxy. apt-proxy will cache downloaded packages by any of the workstation that use the apt-proxy server as a mirror. Hope that helps.
On 3/24/06, Dominique Cimafranca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, all, > > I was reinstalling Ubuntu (Breezy Badger) on a couple of my machines. As > you know, after the installation, Ubuntu looks for the updated files. Given > the age of Breezy, it's now at 74MB worth of files to download. > > Rather than update each machine, I only updated one. I then copied the > downloaded deb files to the other machine and created a custom repository so > that it wouldn't have to download these files anymore. In case someone out > there is going through the same situation, I'm posting the steps. > > Here are the steps I took: > > 1) Downloaded the update files to the target machine machine. deb files > are in /var/cache/apt/archives. Copied the deb files to the target machine. > (in this case, /home/dominique/debs) > > 2) Installed the dpkg-dev package on the target machine. We need this > because of dpkg-scanpackages command, not installed by default. > > 3) In the debs directory (containing the packages), run > > dpkg-scanpackages . /dev/null | gzip > debs/Packages.gz > > This will create /home/dominique/debs/debs/Packages.gz > > 4) Launched synaptic, cleared out the repositories (just in case) > > 5) In Synaptic, added new custom repository > > deb file:/home/dominique/debs debs/ > > 6) Rescan repositories. Synaptic should see the files to be upgraded. > Mark all upgrades, then apply. > > > This sequence can be adapted for a local network repository. > > I hope this helps. If someone can suggest refinements, please do so. > Thanks. _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
