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How I got apt update and install to work (with Debian Jessie retired)
OK, so I started off creating my own local Debian repository. Not recommended -- it's a lot of work. But with a lot of Googling and experimenting, I finally got apt to work using an online source. ...
tigerten wrote:
I would also recommend adding the retired and archived Debian security repo as well.
Http://archive. Debian.org/Debian-security Jessie/updates main non-free contrib
Thx for the tip, I have added that.
One aspect with apt-mirror - it grabs the repository for the platform you are using. So if you are on an x86 machine, it will get the x86 repository.
It will run on the NAS without needing installation, so you can just run it there to make sure you get the repository you need for your platform. Make sure you are saving to the data volume, as the OS partition is far too small.
How DO you ensure it downloads to the data and not the root volume?
XtheUnknown wrote:
How DO you ensure it downloads to the data and not the root volume?
If you are talking about apt-mirror, I just created an apt-mirror share. I put mirror.list in the share root, and ran apt-mirror while in the folder.
Total size is about 200 GB, the OS partition is only 4 GB.
That didn't work for me - I found my OS partition (directory: var/spool/apt-mirror/mirror) filling up rapidly...
So, I've edited the apt-mirror script (line 103) to specify my desired save location in the base-path configuration variable, which is probably not the best way to do it (I'm not a linux expert), but it seems to work (201GB downloading as I write)...
XtheUnknown wrote:
That didn't work for me - I found my OS partition (directory: var/spool/apt-mirror/mirror) filling up rapidly...
So, I've edited the apt-mirror script (line 103) to specify my desired save location in the base-path configuration variable, which is probably not the best way to do it (I'm not a linux expert), but it seems to work (201GB downloading as I write)...
$base_path was already set to /data/apt-mirror - I don't recall doing that, perhaps I did.
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