APT caching server for a small LAN

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 11:22:46PM -0000, Ben Hodgson wrote:

> 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?

I use squid for this purpose.

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 - mdz