Apt-Cacher-NG

16Jan10

Last night, when trying to install Crunchbang with the alternate script onto Jaunty86, which is a story for another blog, I set it up to grab some old packages from the server, which runs apt-cacher to cache .deb packages. Great, updates went fast. But then stopped. I tried to log in to the server, and [...]

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Tags: Apt-Cacher, Apt-Cacher-NG, Jesred, Server, Squid, Ubuntu

HOWTO: Apt-Cacher

04Jan10

I have four computers running Ubuntu, two 9.10 servers, and two desktops running 9.04. Last night, both of my servers needed 50Mb of updates, and I wondered, why bother downloading two different sets for both of them? Which is when I stumbled onto Apt-Cacher, which is basically a caching proxy server for Apt, and exactly [...]

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Tags: Apt, Apt-Cacher, HowTo, Proxy, Server, Synaptic, Ubuntu