HTTP FTP RSYNC Mirror

The Linux User Group at UD through grants, donations, and university funds has procured server servers dedicated to mirroring open source software distributions for the community. The University of Delaware has been gracious enough to donate bandwidth and server room space to our group for the past several years.

Make LUG your Default Mirror

  • Gentoo 
    #add to /etc/make.conf
  GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.lug.udel.edu/pub/gentoo http://mirror.lug.udel.edu/pub/gentoo ${GENTOO_MIRRORS}"
  SYNC="rsync://rsync.lug.udel.edu/gentoo-portage ${SYNC}"
  • Debian 
    #add to your /etc/apt/sources.list near the top
deb http://mirror.lug.udel.edu/pub/debian stable main contrib non-free
  • Ubuntu

To update your ubuntu install to use the lug mirror is fairly simple, just execute the following commands on a terminal (Applications→Accessories→Terminal): 

achester@frylock-virt:~$ sudo cp -i /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.orig
achester@frylock-virt:~$ sudo sed -i "s|archive.ubuntu.com|ftp.lug.udel.edu/pub|g" /etc/apt/sources.list

Here you can find my sources.list and the original sources.list included with ubuntu (both for 8.04). You can always just use either of those files by running similar commands: 

achester@frylock-virt:~$ sudo cp -i /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.orig
achester@frylock-virt:~$ sudo wget -O /etc/apt/sources.list http://lug.udel.edu/docs/sources-edited.list
tux