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Upgrading Multiple Machines With approx

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JK
Juliet Kemp
Apr 14, 2009

“This means that you only have to grab the package once for your
entire local network: after that, other machines can get it from
the approx server.

“Install the package on the machine you want to use as a server,
via apt-get with sudo apt-get install approx. Once it’s installed,
edit /etc/approx/approx.conf to set your repository names:”

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