[ubuntu-in] LAN repository from DVDs

[Sambit Bikas Pal]

On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 23:50, Dibyajyoti Mohapatra <dibyam at vubites.com> wrote:
>...it gradually slows down. I thought the local repository will be faster but it disappointed me, the fact now is apt  is MUCH >MORE SLOWER downloading stuff from local repository than it used to be while fetching packages from internet.
> Anyone faced such problems where apt slows down to bytes per second? Any solutions?
>

Bump!
I have local repositories of Ubuntu Intrepid, Jaunty & Karmic as well
as Debian Lenny and they are working really well. However I created
them using apt-mirror by directly downloading all the packages from
the internet. I had described it here in details -
http://www.botcyb.org/2008/11/setting-up-local-ubuntu-debian-mirror.html
Though I haven't tried it myself, but I guess it should be possible to
use apt-mirror to create a local repository by fetching packages from
the DVDs that you have, by doing the following trick. The
configuration file (see the link above) for apt-mirror has entries
like -

deb http://ftp.twaren.net/Linux/Ubuntu/ubuntu/ karmic main restricted
universe multiverse

which tell apt-mirror where to get the packages from. By replacing
this with something like-

deb file:///var/ubuntu/dvd-1 main restricted multiverse universe
deb file:///var/ubuntu/dvd-2 main restricted multiverse universe
deb file:///var/ubuntu/dvd-3 main restricted multiverse universe

it "should" be possible to direct apt-mirror to get the packages from
the the local dump. Check this link -
http://www.zyxware.com/articles/2008/03/05/ubuntu-repository-on-dvds-available-at-zyxware-order-it-now
which describes how to dump the contents of the DVDs.

Once apt-mirror is tricked into fetching the packages from the local
dump instead of the internet, you can follow the rest of the
instructions at
http://www.botcyb.org/2008/11/setting-up-local-ubuntu-debian-mirror.html

Hope this helps! :)

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Sambit Bikas Pal
MS 4th Year
Indian Institute Of Science Education & Research Kolkata,

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