On Saturday 07 August 2010 03:54 PM, Anurag Jain 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. Any easy solution is to use squid-deb-proxy, which is very easy to setup and configure.
http://cityblogger.com/archives/2010/08/09/automated-caching-of-your-ubuntu-updates > > Thanks and regards. > > -- > Anurag Jain > IVyr B.Tech CSE > SASTRA University > Thanjavur(T.N.)-613402 > > > Check out my blog.. http://ripplesofknowledge.blogspot.com/ > -- Prakash Advani | http://cityblogger.com -- ubuntu-in mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
