--- On Fri, 16/7/10, James Courtier-Dutton <james.dutton@???> wrote:
> On 16 July 2010 14:16, Jan Henkins
> <jan@???>
> wrote:
> > 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.
> >
>
> I find "apt-cacher-ng" easier to configure.
>
Thanks folks, I went with apt-cacher-ng in the end, it seemingly works and was very simple to setup.
Isaac.
