Re: Ubuntu servers are overloaded

I've found a pretty neat solution to this problem... it still involves
downloading things, but allows for the re-use of packages...

The package apt-cacher is really slick in handling this kind of thing.
Basically how it works is this..

You pick a server on your network (or teh intarweb someplace with the
proper restrictions), install the apt-cacher and then add the following
to your /etc/apt/apt.conf file on all your machines:
    Acquire::http::Proxy
"http://server.where.apt-cacher.installed.com:3142/";

This acts as a pass through proxy, and if you have already downloaded
it, it serves it up from your local cache. (
/var/cache/apt-cacher/packages )

If you already have packages downloaded ( /var/cache/apt/archives) you
can just copy them into that directory.

It really saves a lot of bandwidth :)

Marc
Damien Hull wrote:
> All the Ubuntu servers are overloaded with people downloading Feisty
> Fawn. You may have trouble installing software. I'm having trouble. I
> tried to install a package and got an error. I tried to update my
> sources list and that didn't work either.
>
> My copy of Feisty Fawn just finished downloading. I'll be burning CD's
> tonight and tomorrow. I should have a short stack of CD's for the
> meeting. :-)
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Received on Fri Apr 20 05:31:39 2007