APT caching server for a small LAN

[Bob Nielsen]

On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 07:34:49PM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> 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.

For caching only of packages, apt-cacher works pretty well.