On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 15:54, Anurag Jain <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I'm planning to set a local Ubuntu repository mirror here in my college > server. Since many students are turning up towards using Linux and specially > Ubuntu is pretty famous among them, it takes incurs lots of time and > overhead to download packages from the main server. I my college we access > Internet via proxy and but the college website(and local ftp) hosted there > can be accessed directly. So if its is possible to create a mirror on that > server which will download and update the packages on its own, we'd be able > to use that as mirror and fetch the packages at a faster rate. > > I've gone through couple of blogs for creating local mirrors but not sure if > they'll surely work. So I need help regarding how to proceed with it along > with the specifications and requirements.
Hi Anurag, I was (still am) in an exactly similar situation like you. Here's my experience of setting up a local mirror - http://www.botcyb.org/2008/11/setting-up-local-ubuntu-debian-mirror.html Hope it helps. Regards. -- Sambit Bikas Pal MS 5th Year Dept. of Physics, Indian Institute Of Science Education & Research, Kolkata. Web: http://sam.botcyb.org Blog: http://www.botcyb.org OpenPGP Key: http://keyserver.ubuntu.com:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x8E57F8B897D372B3 -- ubuntu-in mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
