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Greetings, I am a very new GNU/Linux convert, having only started using Kubuntu since the start of October 2008. I am using Ubuntu v8.04 (Hardy Heron) with the KDE Desktop v3.5.9 and Adept Updater V2.1 Cruiser on a couple of computers on my home LAN, and I plan to extend this to the rest of my network. I connect to the Internet using an ADSL router which the computers on my network all have access to.

What I was wondering is if it is possible to configure Adept Updater to download the latest updates for my software on one computer, and then have the other computers poll the first computer for their updates, to save bandwidth. Obviously, the variations in software installed on the different computers, and the various hardware configurations, would mean that each computer would need to have their own updates as well, but I am sure that an update to, for instance, the Konqueror web browser, would be common to all of the computers on my LAN that have Kubuntu installed on them, so downloading it only once for all of them would make more sense, and conserve bandwidth.

In order to achieve this I assume that I would need to set up a schedule or Cron job of some sort, so that Adept updater on the first computer will get its updates first, and then the other computers will poll the first computer before getting their own updates through the Internet.

Does anybody know how to do this? Could you explain it in terms that a complete n00b could understand?

My thanks to truefusion from the Trap17 Forums who answered this question for me over there. I'll quote the reply that I was given there just in case anyone here is interested in the answer as well...

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Yes, it's possible to do that; many companies that run Linux do that. You'd have to set up your own Debian repository on the central computer. Then on the beneficiaries, edit their sources.list file to include the LAN source. These links should help:
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reposito...y-howto.en.html
http://ianlawrence.info/random-stuff/setti...bian-repository