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ogryn
October 11th, 2011, 12:03 PM
Hi,

I know there are a couple of different options for caching .deb packages to a machine, but I've not yet found something that works well for Distribution Updates.

We have about 10 Ubuntu machines here that we want to update to 11.10 when it arrives but I don't want to download all the packages every time.

When you run the update-manager -d, it replaces all your sources which then bypasses how things like apt-mirror seem to work.

Any ideas on the best way to only have to download the packages once and update the other machines from the local network?

Thanks,
Dave

Lars Noodén
October 11th, 2011, 12:21 PM
One way would be to use the package apt-cacher, or apt-cacher-ng, and configure the machines to use that as the proxy.