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Howto: apt-cacher with ubuntu

If you have an office with loads of linux computers, it might be useful to have a local repository to save bandwidth on you local wan. But a local repository needs to be up-to-date and it’s hard to decide which packages should be mirrored. If you want to have a good and useful mirror you’ll probably waste a lot of hard drive space and also a lot of your wan bandwidth updating never used packages.