Ubuntu Edgy Updates

[Tim Frost]

On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 21:56 +1300, Tortise wrote:
> Hi Folks
>  
> I have a few installs to do here, It seems the updates are each quite
> a volume, especially when multiplied out.
>  
> Are these updates downloaded to one directory or are they
> automatically farmed out where they are to go?
>  
> That is, how can I download them once and distribute these to the
> other PCs on the LAN?  (Short of possibly setting up a mirror from
> http://apt-mirror.sourceforge.net/?)

They are downloaded to /var/cache/apt, so you can copy that directory
tree (the archives are stored in /var/cache/apt/archives, but control
files are in /var/cache/apt) to a CD/USB key/..., and transfer them to
the other machines.



Tim