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Usage directions

The mirror is also available via the following protocols:

Protocol URI or equivalent Available off campus
rsync rsync://mirror.ufs.ac.za/ yes

Run this script, with md5sum cda15d5f8a002b64e67f2d62bb0a0516, as root to enable the following distros and repos to update on campus:
  • CentOS
  • Elrepo
  • Fedora Core
  • Fedora EPEL
  • Linux Mint
  • RPMFusion
  • Rocky Linux
  • Ubuntu

Install Tex Live using the following command: install-tl --location http://mirror.ufs.ac.za/ctan/systems/texlive/tlnet/

Install PyPI packages, from this mirror, by running pip with the following option: -i https://mirror.ufs.ac.za/pypi/simple, or add index-url = https://mirror.ufs.ac.za/pypi/simple to the global section of ~/.pip/pip.conf

Install CRAN packages, from this mirror, by running the R function install.packages with the repos parameter specified, for example to install sp: options(repos='http://mirror.ufs.ac.za/cran/'); install.packages(c("sp"), dependencies = TRUE)

Make use of the R repos by creating the file /etc/apt/sources.list.d/cran.list with the following content, replace trusty with the correct release:

deb http://mirror.ufs.ac.za/cran/bin/linux/ubuntu trusty/

Make use of the biolinux repos by creating the file /etc/apt/sources.list.d/bio-linux.list with the following content, replace trusty with the correct release:

Make use of the QGIS repos by creating the file /etc/apt/sources.list.d/qgis.list with the following content, replace trusty with the correct release:

deb http://mirror.ufs.ac.za/ubuntu-qgis trusty main
deb http://mirror.ufs.ac.za/ubuntu-qgis-ppa trusty main

Make use of the Mendeley repo by editing the file /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mendeleydesktop.list by changing:

deb http://desktop-download.mendeley.com/download/apt stable main
to:
deb http://mirror.ufs.ac.za/mendeley/apt stable main

Make use of the KDE Neon repo by creating the file /etc/apt/sources.list.d/neon.list with the following contents:

deb http://mirror.ufs.ac.za/kde-neon/lts xenial main
deb-src http://mirror.ufs.ac.za/kde-neon/lts xenial main

Follow the bioconductor installation instructions, but run:

options(BioC_mirror = 'http://mirror.ufs.ac.za/bioconductor');


before running the BiocManager::install function.