I just installed apt cacher ng for catching my apt upgrade packages and saw a huge time improvement even though I have a good internet connection. It act as a proxy and caches the response packages.

Do you run something similar? Or maybe even run a local repo mirror? Warning, they are really big so I don’t think it is recommended unless you really need almost everything.

  • @TCB13English
    2•1 year ago

    Do you know you can use the ISO files as repositories? Easier in some situations.

    1. Create the folders (mountpoint) to mount the ISO files
    sudo mkdir -p /media/repo_1
sudo mkdir -p /media/repo_2
sudo mkdir -p /media/repo_3
    1. Mount the ISO files
    	sudo mount -o loop ~/Downloads/debian-8.0.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso /media/repo_1/
	sudo mount -o loop ~/Downloads/debian-8.0.0-amd64-DVD-2.iso /media/repo_2/
	sudo mount -o loop ~/Downloads/debian-8.0.0-amd64-DVD-3.iso /media/repo_3/
    1. Edit the /etc/apt/sources.list file to add the repository
    vim /etc/apt/sources.list

	deb file:///media/repo_1/  jessie main contrib
	deb file:///media/repo_2/  jessie main contrib
	deb file:///media/repo_3/  jessie main contrib
    1. Run sudo apt-get update