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farrinux
January 24th, 2012, 11:34 AM
I have several computers setup with 11.10 on them and would like to have the same software sources on all. I have one main computer setup with the sources I like. Is there an easy way of getting the same sources on the other boxes without manually doing everyone. Is there a file I can copy from my main comp and move it to the others?
Thanks in advance.
Paqman
January 24th, 2012, 11:38 AM
The file you want is /etc/apt/sources.list
farrinux
January 24th, 2012, 11:45 AM
The file you want is /etc/apt/sources.list
Paqman:
Just so I know the process, I would copy that file and then on the other comps open terminal and sudo to root and replace the file on each computer and then do an apt-get update. Would this be correct?
Paqman
January 24th, 2012, 11:51 AM
Spot on.
Cheesemill
January 24th, 2012, 12:08 PM
If there are any files in the /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ directory you need to copy these as well.
philinux
January 24th, 2012, 12:23 PM
I have several computers setup with 11.10 on them and would like to have the same software sources on all. I have one main computer setup with the sources I like. Is there an easy way of getting the same sources on the other boxes without manually doing everyone. Is there a file I can copy from my main comp and move it to the others?
Thanks in advance.
You also might be interested in apt cacher.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Apt-Cacher-Server
http://linuxexpresso.wordpress.com/2011/02/13/howto-apt-cacher-ng-on-ubuntu/
mosaic2s
March 3rd, 2012, 07:07 PM
i will try this.
since every 14 days, I end up updating systems 8 times over and downloading some 100mb 8 times over. With 12.04 coming in, I am excited at using 64bit OS that will make use of 4gb RAM in the comp.
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