On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 23:50, Dibyajyoti Mohapatra <dib...@vubites.com> wrote: >...it gradually slows down. I thought the local repository will be faster but >it disappointed me, the fact now is apt is MUCH >MORE SLOWER downloading >stuff from local repository than it used to be while fetching packages from >internet. > Anyone faced such problems where apt slows down to bytes per second? Any > solutions? >
Bump! I have local repositories of Ubuntu Intrepid, Jaunty & Karmic as well as Debian Lenny and they are working really well. However I created them using apt-mirror by directly downloading all the packages from the internet. I had described it here in details - http://www.botcyb.org/2008/11/setting-up-local-ubuntu-debian-mirror.html Though I haven't tried it myself, but I guess it should be possible to use apt-mirror to create a local repository by fetching packages from the DVDs that you have, by doing the following trick. The configuration file (see the link above) for apt-mirror has entries like - deb http://ftp.twaren.net/Linux/Ubuntu/ubuntu/ karmic main restricted universe multiverse which tell apt-mirror where to get the packages from. By replacing this with something like- deb file:///var/ubuntu/dvd-1 main restricted multiverse universe deb file:///var/ubuntu/dvd-2 main restricted multiverse universe deb file:///var/ubuntu/dvd-3 main restricted multiverse universe it "should" be possible to direct apt-mirror to get the packages from the the local dump. Check this link - http://www.zyxware.com/articles/2008/03/05/ubuntu-repository-on-dvds-available-at-zyxware-order-it-now which describes how to dump the contents of the DVDs. Once apt-mirror is tricked into fetching the packages from the local dump instead of the internet, you can follow the rest of the instructions at http://www.botcyb.org/2008/11/setting-up-local-ubuntu-debian-mirror.html Hope this helps! :) -- Sambit Bikas Pal MS 4th Year Indian Institute Of Science Education & Research Kolkata, Web: http://www.botcyb.org OpenPGP Key: http://keyserver.ubuntu.com:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x8E57F8B897D372B3 -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in