apt-mirror-setup software package provides set up a mirror in sources.list, you can install in your Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) by running the commands given below on the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install apt-mirror-setup
apt-mirror-setup is installed in your system.
Make ensure the apt-mirror-setup package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep apt-mirror-setup *
You will get with apt-mirror-setup package name, version, architecture and description in a table
Distro | Ubuntu 16 04 lts xenial xerus |
Section | debian-installer udeb packages |
Package | apt-mirror-setup |
Version | 1:0.104ubuntu4 |
Description | set up a mirror in sources.list |
Sub Section | Debian-installer |