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| Newer page: | version 31 | Last edited on Wednesday, June 7, 2006 11:18:04 am | by IanMcDonald | Revert |
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!!! Having multiple machines update over a slow line
You can use apt-proxy(8) on one machine and point all your machines to use the proxy. apt-proxy will download a package the first time a machine asks for it, then caches the package locally for the rest of the machines on the network to use.
One thing to be aware of with apt-proxy(8) is that reasonably often it will appear to be getting no throughput at all. What is actually happening is that apt-proxy(8) is downloading the file in the background and will start sending to you when it has finished downloading the entire file.
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+!!! Releasing disk space
+apt keeps all copies of .deb files used in /var/cache/apt/archive. Over time this builds up and you may want to remove all but the most recent copies by typing <tt>aptitude autoclean</tt>
