Author: James Courtier-Dutton Date: To: jan, Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] ubuntu updates
On 16 July 2010 14:16, Jan Henkins <jan@???> wrote: > Hello Isaac,
>
> On Fri, July 16, 2010 12:46, Isaac Close wrote:
>> Hello there,
>>
>> Quick question follows, here are a number of ubuntu 9.04 machines. They
>> all want updates.
>>
>> Instead of eating loads of internet bandwidth, can the updates simply be
>> downloaded once from one machine and then installed manually on the others
>> ?
>
> I would use apt-proxy for this. Some HOWTO material here:
>
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AptProxy >
> Get apt-proxy to work before you update the machine that runs apt-proxy.
> Once you have the software set up, ensure that the apt-proxy host uses
> it's local apt-proxy. That way you can ensure that at least the packages
> needed for that one upgrade would be available for download by others
> machines pointing to the same proxy.
>
