On 04/04/2019 17:17, Roby wrote:
> The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>> On 04/04/2019 08:13, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>>>
>>> Remember you can also push .deb packages to the remote site using sftp
>>>
>>> And manually install them.
>>>
>>> You do not *have* to use apt-get on the remote machine.
>>>
>>>
>> 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.
>
> I took your advice
> I modified /etc/apt/sources.list adding in the head
> 'deb http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/archive.raspbian.org/raspbian'

This is mine.

$ more /etc/apt/sources.list


deb http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/ stretch main contrib
non-free rpi


Copy that, substituting the site and the correct version name.




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