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.
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Regards,
Jan Henkins
