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

[Prakash Advani]

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/
>

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