On 04/04/2019 08:13, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
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> Remember you can also push .deb packages to the remote site using sftp
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> And manually install them.
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> You do not *have* to use apt-get on the remote machine.
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>

Oh. One thing that you may or may not have tried..

IF there is a bad cache in your upstream ISPs proixies, you may be able
to defeat that by changing package *sources* - are ther any pi mirrors
in other countries you could try?

https://www.raspbian.org/RaspbianMirrors

there are!

I'd try UK kent university. Genrally well maintained


find some that work on your local machine - edit sources.list and just
do apt-get update - and then apply them to the remote machine.



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