[Solved] How to use Local Repositories?

[Chopstick]

Hi,
does anyone know how I can update my packages from a local mirror (of the cononical repository)?
My university maintains a local mirror of all major linux distributions, and I would like to use it, so that updates don't count against my band width (and it would be very economical), but the repository is not in the list of mirrors I get to choose from, for example in Synaptic.
I can add the local mirror as an additional repo (like ppa's) but updates are still downloaded from the official mirror in the list... and I have no idea where to change the list entries... there is no trace of these repos in sources.list either...
Can anyone help me?
Thanks!
Chopstick

[ubuntuku]

Re: How to use Local Repositories?

Edit /etc/apt/sources.list as root.

kdesudo kate /etc/apt/sources.list

and place your university repository at the top of the file.

# network repository
deb [url]http://myuniversityserver/repo[/url] /

# local repository (USB, mounted harddisk)
deb file:/pathtoyourrepo /

[rfakhrai]

Re: How to use Local Repositories?

I have to ask, where do you attend university that accepts and supports Ubuntu?

[Chopstick]

Re: How to use Local Repositories?

thanks a lot, ubuntuku! This seems to work!

However, I'm still a bit confused: there are a couple of repos I added in synaptic, which are included in the update-process, but do not appear in my sources.list... there must be another list of repos, right?

@rfakhrai: I'm at the University of Toronto. Especially the Physics Department is very supportive for Linux users.

[ubuntuku]

Re: How to use Local Repositories?

Yep, you can find the other repos list in this folder: /etc/apt/sources.list.d

[rfakhrai]

Re: How to use Local Repositories?

You beat me to it, ubuntuku :P

[Chopstick]

Re: How to use Local Repositories?

Thanks, guys! I learned something :-)