Welcome to the UFS mirror

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Antimalware
Avira Free Antivirus Avast ClamAV Updates McAfee Microsoft Security Essentials
Applications
7-Zip ArgoUML Audacity Bleachbit Celestia
Chipster Chipster VMs ClamWin The Comprehensive R Archive Network Comprehensive TeX Archive Network
Cygwin Dia for Windows FileZilla Double Commander Evince
Firefox FreeNAS GNU Projects GIMP Generic Model Organism Database Project
GNU Privacy Guard GnuWin32 GRASS GIS InfraRecorder Inkscape
Jenkins CI JXplorer KDE KDE for Windows KeePass Password Safe
LibreOffice LyX Mira Assembler MySQL Matplotlib
NMAP Notepad++ Numpy OpenOffice.org PDFCreator
PortableApps.com PostgreSQL Process Hacker Putty Quantum GIS
Sage SciPy Scribus SQLite SMPlayer
Stellarium TigerVNC TortoiseHG Vim VLC media player
VirtualBox WinCDEmu WinMerge WinSCP Wireshark
XBMC Zotero
Software Development Repositories
The Apache Software Foundation The Comprehensive Perl Archive Network Eclipse Foundation Projects Mono PostgreSQL Extension Network
PHP Python Package Index SharpDevelop
Linux Distributions
Arch Linux BackTrack Bio-Linux CentOS CentOS Vault
Clonezilla Debian Fedora Gentoo GParted
Kali Linux Knoppix Linux Mint Linux Mint Debian Edition openSUSE
Ophcrack Scientific Linux SystemRescueCd Ubuntu
Linux Software Repositories
ATrpms BackTrack Repos Bio-Linux Packages ELRepo Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL)
GetDeb JPackage Kali Linux Packages Kali Linux Security Updates LinuxMint Repository
Packman PostgreSQL Puppet Labs Rabbit MQ RPMForge
RPM Fusion Ubuntu Cloud Archive
Other Operating Systems
FreeDOS FreeBSD PC-BSD
Other
Linux Kernel Sources Gentoo Portage Tree Macports Release Trunk OpenVAS NVT Feed
Data sets
NCBI Blast NCBI MMDB The SEED SRTM3 Swiss-Prot
UniProt
Usage directions

The mirror is also available via the following protocols:
Protocol URI or equivalent Available off campus
NFS mirror.ufs.ac.za:/data/mirror no
Windows File Sharing \\mirror.ufs.ac.za\mirror no
FTP ftp://mirror.ufs.ac.za/ yes
rsync rsync://mirror.ufs.ac.za/ yes

Run this script, with md5sum 9edd2062556df64e70f5208bff7e547d, as root to enable the following distros and repos to update on campus:
  • CentOS
  • Elrepo
  • Fedora Core
  • Fedora EPEL
  • GetDeb
  • Linux Mint
  • RPMForge
  • RPMFusion
  • Scientific 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 http://mirror.ufs.ac.za/pypi/simple, or add index-url = http://mirror.ufs.ac.za/pypi/simple to the global section of ~/.pip/pip.conf