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Debian Archive Mirror

Stanford mirrors of the official Debian and Ubuntu package repositories

University IT (UIT) maintains mirrors of the official Debian and Ubuntu package repositories at Stanford. We update the mirror every eight hours.

Features

  • Mirror of official Debian and Ubuntu packages
  • Mirror is accessible from Stanford networks making it ideal for servers and services with network restrictions
  • Updated three times per day
  • Local copy allows faster builds and updates

Designed for

Enterprise Technology teams within University IT

Requirements

None

Data security

May be used for Low, Moderate, and High Risk servers, as defined by the Information Security Office.

Rates

Free of charge

Get started

Mirror endpoints:

  • http://debian.stanford.edu/debian/
  • http://debian.stanford.edu/debian-security/ (deprecated; see note below)
  • http://debian.stanford.edu/debian-backports/
  • http://debian.stanford.edu/debian-volatile/
  • http://debian.stanford.edu/ubuntu

Debian

We mirror the current stable, the previous stable, as well as experimental, sid, and testing distributions. We have deprecated the "http://debian.stanford.edu/debian-security/" endpoint; for security updates use instead "http://security.debian.org/debian-security".

For the current list of distributions mirrored see the Debian Archive Mirror Support Matrix

Ubuntu

We also mirror several Ubuntu distributions, including the current LTS (Long Term Support) distributions for the current list of Ubuntu distributions mirrored see the Debian Archive Mirror Support Matrix

Get help

IIf you have questions:

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See also

Stanford’s Local Debian Package Archive

Last modified April 14, 2023