Ubuntu upgrades

[Leslie Gossner]

Slawek Drabot wrote:
> all this talk of downloads has reminded me of something:
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> how do you deal with downloading upgrades for multiple installs?
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> I have Ubuntu on 2 machines, and it seems a waste to download the same upgrades twice. What strategies do people use to avoid this situation?
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I have no less than 5 computers running 64 bit Kubuntu 8.04 and one box 
is running apt-cacher.   Made a massive difference to how fast i chew 
through my download limit and doesnt seem to worry the apt-cacher 
machine performance wise in any way.  For 2 machines this may be a 
little overkill but after the second its well worth the 30mins it took 
me to set things up.  I dont have a free mirror to download from so this 
has saved me a great deal.  Oh and i use the US server for al my updates 
as the default aussie server (optus) is terribly slow to update and down 
a lot more often than i would like.
If u need to know more about apt-cacher yell i think i can remember 
exactly what i did.
Leslie