Best way to cache apt downloads on a LAN?

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Published on 2010-09-02T23:34:22Z Indexed on 2012/09/06 15:50 UTC
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I have multiple Ubuntu machines at home and a pretty slow internet connection, and sometimes multiple machines need to be updated at once (especially during new Ubuntu releases.)

Is there a way where only one of my machines needs to download the packages, and the other machines can use the first machine to get the debs? Does it involve setting up my own local mirror? Or a proxy server? Or can it be made simpler?

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