Apt cache cheatsheet - Fri, Feb 8, 2013

I’ve been setting up a number of apt-cacher instances on different networks I run Ubuntu boxes on. This is a well documented process. I’m posting the key steps if only for my own reference later.

  1. apt-get install apt-cacher

  2. Edit /etc/default/apt-cacher add AUTOSTART=1.

  3. Edit /etc/apt-cacher/apt-cacher.conf and make sure the allowed_hosts line is explicitly as intended.

  4. Open client (and local server’s) /etc/apt/sources.list and str repl %s/http:\/\//http:\/\/SERVERHOSTNAME:3142\/apt-cacher\//g

Default port is 3142

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