APT caching server for a small LAN

[larry price]

yes, look at this document,

http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/repository-howto/repository-howto.html

you will need to adapt a few things for ubuntu, but it's the same
package management software.


On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 23:22:46 -0000, Ben Hodgson <ubuntu-list at blahpro.com> wrote:
>  
> Hey, 
>   
> I don't know to what extent this is supported but I have the following
> situation; I have a LAN of a few workstations and one server. I perform
> quite alot of HDD reformats and am always installing new bits and bobs via
> APT. The thing is, I am, consequently, forever downloading the same packages
> more than once and I would much rather download them all onto the server and
> then just have the apt client on the workstations fetch the packages from
> the  local server rather than getting them from half way across the internet
> - is this reasonably simple to implement? 
>   
> Thanks, 
>   
>   
> Ben Hodgson 
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