[HowTo] Building a local Mirror for Ubuntu Repositories.

**oneloveamaru** · August 31st, 2010

Thanks, found that right after I posted. I'll have to look up the syntax but I'm sure the man page will tell me.

**pricetech** · August 31st, 2010

Originally Posted by oneloveamaru

Thanks, found that right after I posted. I'll have to look up the syntax but I'm sure the man page will tell me.

Cool. Much success with it and feel free to post on this thread any tips you learn while doing.

**mccartyj** · March 25th, 2011

Excellent How-To, thank you for posting it.

Do you need to use the deb-amd64 and deb-i386 sources to get both repositories, or is that only for older distributions (I only see it on older how-tos).

Thanks!

**pricetech** · March 25th, 2011

Seems forever since I wrote that tutorial, but I'm pretty sure you do. I didn't include it since I was only supporting and building for a single processor architecture.

Best I recall you add lines for each repo that start with "deb-amd64" instead of just "deb".

I hope I'm remembering right.

**pricetech** · March 26th, 2011

From the man page for sources.list:

distribution may also contain a variable, $(ARCH) which expands to the Debian architecture (i386, m68k, powerpc, ...) used on the system. This permits architecture-independent sources.list files to be used. In general this is only of interest when specifying an exact path, APT will automatically generate a URI with the current architecture otherwise.

I haven't done it, so I don't know about any "gotchas" that you might encounter.

Have fun with it and do please post back anything you learn for the benefit of others.

If you decide to write a new tutorial, feel free to use anything from mine that saves you time.

Joe

**mccartyj** · March 28th, 2011

I downloaded the repos this weekend and yes, you do need to specify deb-i386 and/or deb-amd64. I ran apt-mirror on a 64-bit machine and just plain "deb ..." only got the 64-bit repos. I've update my mirror.list to include "deb-i386" and "deb-amd64" and I'll see what happens tonight when I update it.

Thanks again for your help.

**rmaultz** · September 15th, 2012

would it be possible to create a shell script with all commands and instructions for automated server installs

need a script to set up 12 ubuntu servers as load balancers