Re: How do I install older software versions?
On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 10:47:41AM +0100, James Kerr wrote:
> On Sunday 28 Sep 2008, Aniruddha wrote:
> > On Sat, 2008-09-27 at 21:03 -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
> > > If you have the .deb files in the cache (/var/cache/apt/archives) then
> > > you can try to install the .deb files directly using the "dpkg -i"
> > > command. You can also do something like
> > >
> > > sudo apt-get install package=version
> > >
> > > if the package is available in the cache (or in some other repository).
> >
> > The problem is that when you need an package that you haven't installed
> > before, the package it isn't in cache (the same goes for a fresh testing
> > install). Moreover an accidental apt clean could easily wipe out your
> > careful build up cache.
> >
> > Is it possible to have a local copy of an apt mirror? I have 5 machines
> > that can sync with a local apt-mirror and that way I can have better
> > version control.
> >
>
> I use debmirror to maintain a local mirror of lenny binaries. You need to be
> careful about how much you choose to mirror or you'll end up with an
> extremely large bandwidth/storage requirement. My local mirror is about
> 20GB.
Use proxy server such as squid. Then it saves only ones you downloaded.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_server
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