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APT-MIRROR(1) User Contributed Perl Documentation APT-MIRROR(1) NAME apt-mirror - apt sources mirroring tool SYNOPSIS apt-mirror [configfile] DESCRIPTION A small and efficient tool that lets you mirror a part of or the whole De- bian GNU/Linux distribution or any other apt sources. Main features: * It uses a config similar to APT's sources.list * It's fully pool compliant * It supports multithreaded downloading * It supports multiple architectures at the same time * It can automatically remove unneeded files * It works well on an overloaded Internet connection * It never produces an inconsistent mirror including while mirroring * It works on all POSIX compliant systems with Perl and wget COMMENTS apt-mirror uses /etc/apt/mirror.list as a configuration file. By default it is tuned to official Debian or Ubuntu mirrors. Change it for your needs. After you setup the configuration file you may run as root: # su - apt-mirror -c apt-mirror Or uncomment the line in /etc/cron.d/apt-mirror to enable daily mirror up- dates. FILES /etc/apt/mirror.list Main configuration file /etc/cron.d/apt-mirror Cron configuration template /var/spool/apt-mirror/mirror Mirror places here /var/spool/apt-mirror/skel Place for temporarily downloaded indexes /var/spool/apt-mirror/var Log files placed here. URLs and MD5 checksums also here. CONFIGURATION EXAMPLES The mirror.list configuration supports many options, the file is well com- mented explaining each option. Here are some sample mirror configuration lines showing the various supported ways: Normal: deb http://example.com/debian stable main contrib non-free Arch Specific: (many other architectures are supported) deb-powerpc http://example.com/debian stable main contrib non-free HTTP and FTP Auth or non-standard port: deb http://user:pass@exam- ple.com:8080/debian stable main contrib non-free HTTPS with sending Basic HTTP authentication information (plaintext user- name and password) for all requests: (this was default behaviour of Wget 1.10.2 and prior and is needed for some servers with new version of Wget) set auth_no_challenge 1 deb https://user:pass@example.com:443/debian stable main contrib non-free HTTPS without checking certificate: set no_check_certificate 1 deb https://example.com:443/debian stable main contrib non-free Source Mirroring: deb-src http://example.com/debian stable main contrib non-free AUTHORS Dmitry N. Hramtsov <hdn@nsu.ru> Brandon Holtsclaw <me@brandonholtsclaw.com> perl v5.42.3 2026-08-04 APT-MIRROR(1)
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