Peter L. Schroeder said:
> What is a useful configuration in apt.conf and/or anywhere else
> to avoid downloading packages twice if I run
> apt-get first on one and then on the other box ?
Although it may not be the most correct way of doing it, here's what I did:
1) Have one machine share /var/
If you've got some disk-space which can be shared between the two
machines (NFS mount, Jaz/Zip drive, etc.) you could try using apt-move,
which was recently installed into potato. It can migrate the
downloaded debfiles into the proper hierarchy, and generate the
required control files, to allow ap
Being a Debian-newbie I am fascinated of apt and want to
use it on both Debian-boxes in my home-net.
I access a german ftp-site and it works quite well.
(Here is my /etc/apt/sources.list in addition to
Todd Suess´ recently published one:
deb ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian stable main contrib
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