Beautiful! Matthew that worked a treat!
> apt-proxy does exactly that. Wowo! This is the one! I installed it and it almost walked into the kitchen and baked me a cake.. almost .. there was a bit of configuring first. It needed a few things which weren't setup as dependancies (shame .. oh well) -- it needs rsync (this is a NEW system, remember, the HDD died on the weekend) apt-get install rsync > Packages get saved to /var/cache/apt/archives after download. You can then > transfer them out to somewhere more tasty after that. apt-proxy comes with a neato tool called apt-proxy-import It requires dpkg-dev (to get info on each package in the archive, to work out what structure to put them under.) You just modify the /etc/apt/sources.list adding your apt-server as the sources .. (for eg) deb http://saxon:9999/main woody main contrib non-free deb http://saxon:9999/non-US woody/non-US main contrib non-free deb-src http://saxon:9999/main woody main contrib non-free deb-src http://saxon:9999/non-US woody/non-US main contrib non-free deb http://saxon:9999/security woody/non-US main contrib non-free and then update it all # apt-get update and then # apt-proxy-import /var/cache/apt/archives And then I imported the other three Debian boxes via ... # mkdir /tmp/ibook_apt && cd /tmp/ibook_apt && ssh 192.168.1.112 tar cvfz - -C /var/cache/apt archives | tar xfz - # apt-proxy-import /tmp/ibook_apt/archives remove those and do next box.. > [1] Minty-fresh breath not guaranteed. Mmmm .. Minty-fresh breath obtained. ramon -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
