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38 questions linked to/from Best way to cache apt downloads on a LAN?
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How to download once and update all computers? [duplicate]
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How can I install software or packages without Internet (offline)?
Best way to cache apt downloads on a LAN?
maybe this will be a duplicate post, but I've found nothing.
I ...
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How can I find download link of linux softwares? [duplicate]
I want download link of sofwares to download them with a download manager.
Could you please help to find download link of any Linux software?
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Personal apt-get download server [duplicate]
Disclaimer: Please read complete question before marking duplicate.
I am thinking to setup a server on our college's internal network, which can host some very common apt-get packages. As there are ...
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How to update a small office of Ubuntu computers without downloading multiple copies of updates? (Ideally unattended) [duplicate]
I've used unattended and scheduled updates via root cron and am looking to perform updates on a larger scale (using command line: non gui).
Ideally it would download the updates from the ...
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How to create a local APT repository?
I would like to build my own local repository on my LAN, so that machines on the LAN can update and upgrade from it. I want to download the packages and store them on my local server so that I can ...
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Where are apt-get files stored?
There are multiple virtual machines running Ubuntu and they are all updated by the following command:
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
But updating each VM separately takes a lot of time to download ...
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I need minimalistic Ubuntu OS for Internet cafe PC [duplicate]
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Booting in kiosk mode
I am from India and am running a small Internet cafe. I did install Ubuntu 11 on my systems but could not continue with Ubuntu OS as it was downloading ...
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How do I ignore a proxy if not available?
Following the instructions in Best way to cache apt downloads on a LAN?, I've set up a caching proxy in my local network. Since that machine is not always up, I'd like to be able to refresh the ...
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How to set up an apt-cacher server?
I have more than 500 systems running ubuntu 10.04, ubuntu 10.10 and ubuntu 11.04. It is difficult for us to install new packages to these machines from internet, because of the high bandwidth usage. I ...
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Is it possible to mirror the apt repositories?
I am a student at Case Western Reserve University, and the bandwidth from the Ubuntu servers to my location is often horrendously bad (on the order of a few hundred bytes per second). Myself and a few ...
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Would there be any negative side-effects of sharing /var/cache/apt/ between two systems?
In the interest of conserving bandwidth, I'm considering mounting a VirtualBox host's /var/cache/apt as /var/cache/apt in the guest. Both host and guest are Ubuntu 10.10 32-bit. Would there be any ...
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Installing apt-cacher server for two ubuntu versions
Is it possible to have apt-cacher server for both Ubuntu version 10.04 & 10.10 in one machine? IF yes can someone explain pls.
The first CD cache of Ubuntu 10.10 works fine.
I have imported the ...
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How to upgrade all 50 Desktops in a network?
How can i upgrade all the 50 desktops to Maverick Meerkat. Is there any netinstall method ?
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Howto use apt-cacher-ng only when available?
I'm using apt-cacher-ng at my local network with the following configuration on the clients:
Acquire::http { Proxy "http://acng-host:3142"; };
Some of the clients are laptops, so how do I configure ...
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How do I optimize apt-fast with Amazon Web Services (AWS) mirrors?
I know that Amazon Web Services has hosted mirrors that I can use to update my Ubuntu machines.
I know there is a tool called apt-fast that makes multiple connections to a mirror server to improve ...
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How to tell if squid-deb-proxy is working?
I've got squid-deb-proxy, avahi-tools, and squid-deb-proxy-client installed on a gateway VM running 12.04 Server, and squid-deb-proxy-client installed on two client VMs running Lubuntu and Xubuntu 12....
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Installing packages in multiple systems
I have to install some packages in 5 Ubuntu system in my office. There, bandwidth is limited. So, is there any way to install it in one system & copy to other, so that all works fine? All systems ...
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How to add packages to a squid-deb-proxy cache?
To save bandwidth and data on my Internet plan, I have installed squid-deb-proxy on a desktop, and the client on it and a few other machines I've got. However, based on the post that put me onto this ,...
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Install a Mirror without downloading all packages from official repository
I first gonna explain the situation:
I have a Laptop which is connected to a wifi connection, and a Desktop which can not be connected to Internet (the modem is too far from it), and i want to ...
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How can i avoid downloading packages every-time I install my Ubuntu? [duplicate]
Every time i install Ubuntu on a computer I have to download the applications/packages
with total size of 1.5~2GB and it took lots of my network bandwidth & time!!
How can I avoid downloading the ...
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Why no TCP_HITS using squid-deb-proxy
I've followed all the advice here and the server log file updates when I do an update on another computer on the network.
However, I never see any TCP_HITs. I even grepped for them. This is some of ...
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How to copy all "apt-get update" cache
How can I copy all apt-get update cache to another computer, so that it doesn't need be updated again and again after new installation?
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Making up cacher server for older ubuntu releases
we have ubuntu 10.04 and ubuntu 10.10 operating systems. However our software works only in these versions. We are facing some problems in the new versions 12.04 (LTS) we are working in it. But ...
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How can I get all of the packages repository for Ubuntu server 12.04 (Precise Pangolin) [duplicate]
I am new with Ubuntu.
I want to set up a local repository for Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin), because I don't have Internet access on my laptop. I downloaded the repository using a local link (...
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what is repository mirror in Debian and ubuntu?
What is a local mirror of a debian apt repository? any simple explanation. Is it the same as ubuntu repository? what is the best way to create one? and is it mandatory to keep the same folder ...
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will squid-deb-proxy be used for release upgrades?
I am in the process of updating a bunch of machines to 12.xx.
For regular package updates I tried apt-proxy, which had random hiccups (clients hanging on various headers). Now I installed apt-cacher-...
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How do I download all the Proprietary drivers for offline use?
In what repository do the Proprietary drivers that are found on the Additional Drivers window found and how can I copy them all so I can have them stored in case I find myself in a computer with a ...
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Howto automatically remove older package versions from a custom repository? [duplicate]
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Delete old packages from local repository
I want to create a private repository for Ubuntu.
I executed the command dpkg-scanpackages . /dev/null | gzip -9c > Packages.gz and ...
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Reduce download size and time when updating package repositories
This question comes from 2 different scenarios but have the same question in common:
Scenario 1 - When a user wants to upgrade several PCs that are not in the same network (Not on the same LAN) or in ...
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squid-deb-proxy setup, it's just not working for me
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I'm planning on doing a lot of R&D on different ubuntu services and decided that I want to run most of it through KVM. But because I want to create a few different servers and try ...
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How does squid-deb-proxy handle older/newer versions of Ubuntu?
I followed Jorge Castro thread here
and its working without a problem! on 12.04-2 x64 bit. However I have a question:
If there is an old/newer version client of ubuntu. How does it fetch cached ...
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How to mirror only required update's from apt-update repo
Mirroring apt takes 100 gb of data...its not possible with my slow connection.
is there any better way to update all hosts using minimum bandwidth consumption?
Am running ubuntu 14.04 and 12.04 LTS ...
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Re-install a set of deb files on another machine without re-downloading
I made a setup for development, and it downloaded a large set of .deb files. Now, I want to re-do this for a presentation, but I do not want to re-download the 400 files live. That would take too long....
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Apt-cacher-ng: Is there a way to avoid duplicating /var/cache/apt?
I know apt-cacher-ng is duplicating the data in /var/cache/apt.
Is there a way to tell it to use /var/cache/apt, or it isn't doable due to permissions?
Mi partition has little space. I could indeed ...
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Snapshot of apt / dpkg state to allow to download deb files from that state [duplicate]
I've read Snapshot and rollback of apt-installed packages and What does reading database mean in Apt?. My task (IMHO) is simpler than 1st question (for which there is no accepted answer): no need to ...
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using the downloaded upgrade packages from one laptop to another [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I install software or packages without Internet (offline)?
I have upgraded Ubuntu 11.10 (amd64) to 12.04 (amd64) on one of the laptops I have,
I have another laptop ...
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Firewall wont let me through but I can copy the files using another machine
Very new to Ubuntu so please bear with me
I am building a server using Ubuntu 12.04
The firewall will not let me through to do any APT-GET's or updates
Can I copy the files needed and put them on the ...
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Copy updated & upgraded package to new linux system
I have a Linux system with updated and upgraded packages and i install new linux system in another disk i want to copy the updated and upgraded packages from the old system to the new system to avoid ...
