[ubuntu-in] Setting up a local Ubuntu repository mirror

[Sambit Bikas Pal]

On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 15:54, Anurag Jain <anuragjainfzd at gmail.com> 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.

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