Welcome to the UFS mirror

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Antimalware
Avira Free Antivirus Avast AVG Bitdefender ClamAV Updates
F-Secure McAfee Microsoft Security Essentials
Applications
7-Zip ArgoUML Audacity Bleachbit Celestia
ClamWin The Comprehensive R Archive Network Comprehensive TeX Archive Network Cygwin Dia for Windows
Double Commander FileZilla Firefox FreeNAS GIMP - Windows Installers
GNU Projects GNU Privacy Guard GnuWin32 GRASS GIS InfraRecorder
Inkscape JXplorer KDE KDE for Windows KeePass Password Safe
LibreOffice LyX MySQL NMAP Notepad++
Numpy OpenMRS OpenOffice.org PDFCreator PortableApps.com
PostgreSQL Putty Quantum GIS Sage SciPy
Scribus SMPlayer Stellarium TigerVNC 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
Redhat Archive Arch Linux BackTrack Bio-Linux CentOS
CentOS Vault Clonezilla Debian Fedora Gentoo
GParted Knoppix Linux Mint Linux Mint Debian Edition openSUSE
Ophcrack Sabayon Scientific Linux SystemRescueCd Ubuntu
Linux Software Repositories
ATrpms BackTrack Repos Bio-Linux Packages ELRepo Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL)
GetDeb JPackage LinuxMint Repository Medibuntu Packman
RPMForge RPM Fusion
Other Operating Systems
FreeDOS FreeBSD PC-BSD
Other
Linux Kernel Sources Gentoo Portage Tree Macports Release Trunk OpenVAS NVT Feed
Data sets
Biomirror NCBI Blast SALT SRTM3
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
HTTPS WEBDAV Share https://mirror.ufs.ac.za/ yes
FTP ftp://mirror.ufs.ac.za/ yes
rsync rsync://mirror.ufs.ac.za/ yes

Run this script 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