All mirrors are also browsable via HTTP or FTP protocol.
When downloading very large file (> 2GB) use client with large files support:
When using Debian mirrors automatic download and upgrade of packages could be done via the excellent apt tool configuring your /etc/apt/sources.list as it follows:
| nemo@giano:/home/nemo |
nemo@giano:~$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list # See sources.list(5) for more information, especialy # Remember that you can only use http, ftp or file URIs # CDROMs are managed through the apt-cdrom tool. # Security updates for "stable" deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free # Volatile deb ftp://giano.com.dist.unige.it/debian-volatile/ stable/volatile main contrib non-free # Stable deb ftp://giano.com.dist.unige.it/debian/ stable main contrib non-free # Sources # deb-src ftp://giano.com.dist.unige.it/debian/ stable main contrib non-free |