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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.

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[-] TCB13@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

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

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

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/

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

Run sudo apt-get update

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