Installing apt-cacher

Apt-cacher need Apache to be properly installed.

Debian

On Debian systems, apt-cacher can be installed using apt. Apache should be restarted afterwards.

    # apt-get install apt-cacher
    # /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

You can also get the latest DEBs from pool/main/a/apt-cacher/ directory of any Debian mirror.

If everything goes well, the path /apt-cacher on the web server should be accessible from any browser.

Fedora

• Download apt-cacher from pool/main/a/apt-cacher/ directory of any Debian mirror.
• Unpack the tarball.
• Move/rename the apt-cacher-x.y.z/ directory to /usr/share/apt-cacher:

      # rm -rf /usr/share/apt-cacher  # just in case
      # mv apt-cacher-1.4.1 /usr/share/apt-cacher
  

• Move/rename apache.conf to /etc/httpd/conf.d/apt-cacher.conf, and set proper permissions:

      # cd /usr/share/apt-cacher/
      # mv apache.conf /etc/httpd/conf.d/apt-cacher.conf
      # chmod 644 /etc/httpd/conf.d/apt-cacher.conf
      # chown root:root /etc/httpd/conf.d/apt-cacher.conf
  

• Restart apache:

      # /etc/init.d/httpd restart
  

• Rename apt-cacher2 to apt-cacher:

      # mv apt-cacher2 apt-cacher
  

• Move the remaining *.conf files to /etc/apt-cacher/:

      # mkdir /etc/apt-cacher
      # mv *.conf /etc/apt-cacher/
  

• Edit /etc/apt-cacher/apt-cacher.conf and change `user' and `group' to `apache'.
• Run install.sh:

      # ./install.sh
  

• Make /var/cache/apt-cacher/ and /var/log/apt-cacher/ owned by apache:

      # chown -R apache /var/log/apt-cacher/
      # chown -R apache /var/cache/apt-cacher/
  

• Point a browser to http://your.ip/apt-cacher to see if everything went fine. If not, check /var/log/httpd/error_log for some hints.