Apt-Cacher NG

Opening Disclaimers

Proxmox

This Guide is written based on the use of Proxmox-VE version 7.0 and more specifically Proxmox_LXC. These instructions should be adaptable to other situations.

Container Creation

General

• Unpriviliged container: checked
• Nesting: unchecked

Template

• Template: ubuntu-21.04-standard_21.04-1_amd64

Disks

• Disk Size (GiB): 4

CPU

Cores: 1

Memory

• Memory (MiB): 256
• Swap (MiB): 512

Network

• IPv4 Static
• IPv4 Gateway

DNS

• DNS Servers: 8.8.8.8 (Change to 127.0.0.1 post-install)

Confirm

• Start After Created: unchecked

Container Tweaks

Options

• Start at boot: yes

Container First Run Steps

Run Updates

apt update && apt full-upgrade -y

Add a sudo user

adduser sysop
usermod -aG sudo sysop

Cleanup The Container for some easy space savings.

apt autoremove -y && apt clean -y

Apt-Cacher NG Installation

apt-get install apt-cacher-ng

Client Config

echo 'Acquire::http { Proxy "http://proxy:3142"; }' | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/00proxy

Tweaks

nano /etc/apt-cacher-ng/acng.conf

add to the bottom

PassThroughPattern: .*

Find this section and tweak:

 # Repository remapping. See manual for details.
 # In this example, some backends files might be generated during package
 # installation using information collected on the system.
 # Examples:
 Remap-debrep: file:deb_mirror*.gz /debian ; file:backends_debian # Debian Archives
 Remap-uburep: file:ubuntu_mirrors /ubuntu ; file:backends_ubuntu # Ubuntu Archives
 Remap-uburepsec: security.ubuntu.com /uburepsec ; file:backends_ubuntu
 Remap-cygwin: file:cygwin_mirrors /cygwin # ; file:backends_cygwin # incomplete, please create this file or specify preferred mirrors here
 Remap-sfnet:  file:sfnet_mirrors # ; file:backends_sfnet # incomplete, please create this file or specify preferred mirrors here
 Remap-alxrep: file:archlx_mirrors /archlinux # ; file:backend_archlx # Arch Linux
 Remap-fedora: file:fedora_mirrors # Fedora Linux
 Remap-epel:   file:epel_mirrors # Fedora EPEL
 Remap-slrep:  file:sl_mirrors # Scientific Linux
 Remap-gentoo: file:gentoo_mirrors.gz /gentoo ; file:backends_gentoo # Gentoo Archives
 Remap-openjdk: file:openjdk /openjdk ; file:openjdk
 

Create this file if not there

nano /etc/apt-cacher-ng/sfnet_mirrors

 http://biznetnetworks.dl.sourceforge.net/project/
 http://cdnetworks-us-1.dl.sourceforge.net/project/
 http://citylan.dl.sourceforge.net/project/
 http://dfn.dl.sourceforge.net/project/
 http://fastbull.dl.sourceforge.net/project/
 http://freefr.dl.sourceforge.net/project/
 http://garr.dl.sourceforge.net/project/
 http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/project/
 http://hivelocity.dl.sourceforge.net/project/
 http://ignum.dl.sourceforge.net/project/
 http://internode.dl.sourceforge.net/project/
 http://iweb.dl.sourceforge.net/project/
 http://jaist.dl.sourceforge.net/project/
 http://kent.dl.sourceforge.net/project/
 http://mesh.dl.sourceforge.net/project/
 http://nchc.dl.sourceforge.net/project/
 http://ncu.dl.sourceforge.net/project/
 http://netcologne.dl.sourceforge.net/project/
 http://ovh.dl.sourceforge.net/project/
 http://puzzle.dl.sourceforge.net/project/
 http://softlayer.dl.sourceforge.net/project/
 http://space.dl.sourceforge.net/project/
 http://sunet.dl.sourceforge.net/project/
 http://superb-east,.dl.sourceforge.net/project/
 http://surfnet.dl.sourceforge.net/project/
 http://switch.dl.sourceforge.net/project/
 http://transact.dl.sourceforge.net/project/
 http://ufpr.dl.sourceforge.net/project/
 http://voxel.dl.sourceforge.net/project/
 http://waix.dl.sourceforge.net/project/