Found this over on Ubuntu Geek. Try it out and watch your downloads fly. Could be especially useful to the bandwidth challenged.
http://www.ubuntugeek.com/apt-fast-a...-upgrades.html
http://www.ubuntugeek.com/apt-fast-a...-upgrades.html
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Re: Speed up apt-get
Late reply, yes, but have you installed and tested this? Is it really faster than without it?Using Kubuntu Linux since March 23, 2007
"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data." - Sherlock Holmes
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Re: Speed up apt-get
Yes, I am using it on both Lucid and Maverick. It works great!! Try it!! Watch those downloads fly!Comment
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Re: Speed up apt-get
Well, the update seemed to go MUCH faster.
"A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.”
– John F. Kennedy, February 26, 1962.Comment
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Using apt-fast. Not sure how many pipes I should use. I have a 150Mbps connection (I love Brighthouse)so pretty much everything is fast anywayComment
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My connection is 25 Mb/s but TW limits my DL speed to around 2.8 Mb/s.
Apt-get regularly hits that cap, so I don't see how pipes would help."A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.”
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Huh, that Axel utility is pretty cool.
Nearly a gig and half in 20 seconds. Not bad!Code:steve@t520:~/junk$ [B]axel -a http://mirror.pnl.gov/fedora/linux/releases/21/Workstation/x86_64/iso/Fedora-Live-Workstation-x86_64-21-5.iso[/B] Initializing download: http://mirror.pnl.gov/fedora/linux/releases/21/Workstation/x86_64/iso/Fedora-Live-Workstation-x86_64-21-5.iso File size: 1472200704 bytes Opening output file Fedora-Live-Workstation-x86_64-21-5.iso Starting download Connection 0 finished ] Connection 1 finished ] Connection 3 finished ] [100%] [..................................................] [ 56.2MB/s] [00:00] Downloaded 1404.0 megabytes in 24 seconds. (57582.02 KB/s) steve@t520:~/junk$ [B]axel -a -n 10 http://mirror.pnl.gov/fedora/linux/releases/21/Workstation/x86_64/iso/Fedora-Live-Workstation-x86_64-21-5.iso[/B] Initializing download: http://mirror.pnl.gov/fedora/linux/releases/21/Workstation/x86_64/iso/Fedora-Live-Workstation-x86_64-21-5.iso File size: 1472200704 bytes Opening output file Fedora-Live-Workstation-x86_64-21-5.iso Starting download Connection 5 finished ] Connection 8 finished ] Connection 0 finished ] Connection 2 finished ] Connection 1 finished ] Connection 3 finished ] Connection 7 finished ] Connection 6 finished ] Connection 9 finished ] [100%] [..................................................] [ 70.1MB/s] [00:00] Downloaded 1404.0 megabytes in 20 seconds. (71817.56 KB/s)
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ya that is cool ,,,,,,,,,braking the DL into multiple streams ,,,,,,,like bit-torrent kinda hay .Originally posted by SteveRiley View Post
installing
VINNYi7 4core HT 8MB L3 2.9GHz
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Old script though - 4.5 years is a couple lifetimes in the linux world. I guess I could adapt it to apt, but it would be cool to code axel into muon, right?
Anyone else here old enough to remember when a similar program (no way can I remember what it was called) was in use back in the bbs/14.4K modem days? Man, you could download a whole 140K Apple II floppy disk image in mere minutes!
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BTW, everyone: Don't compare your speeds to Steve's. He's got like a million megabit connection.
The ONLY reason I'd consider moving back to Kansas City is they got Google Fiber.Comment
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I remember using QModem, which was a front end to ZMODEM on my 56K modem. The max DL speed was about 48K but with compression and after-the-fact packet checking it was rather quick.Originally posted by oshunluvr View Post...
Anyone else here old enough to remember when a similar program (no way can I remember what it was called) was in use back in the bbs/14.4K modem days? Man, you could download a whole 140K Apple II floppy disk image in mere minutes!
On Linux I used to use prozilla but switched to aria2, which allows controlling the number of threads, but now use wget.
Prozilla hasn't been compiled since 2013, so I don't use it any more. But, it was the easiest and fastest tool to use and kept a database of sites I frequented to download, including the source directory structure and my destination file structure.
https://launchpad.net/~tahutek-team/...buntu/prozilla"A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.”
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As Jerry mentioned, you're recalling ZMODEM, which introduced the notion of sliding windows to BBS file transfer protocols.Originally posted by oshunluvr View PostAnyone else here old enough to remember when a similar program (no way can I remember what it was called) was in use back in the bbs/14.4K modem days? Man, you could download a whole 140K Apple II floppy disk image in mere minutes!
Speaking of ancient datacomms... check out this pristine, working example of a Livermore Data Systems Model A Acoustic Coupler from 1964!
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Watch the video. The acoustic coupler is in the brown box behind the guy's arm. The laptop in the video is also old (not from 1964, of course) -- he says finding a laptop with a serial port was a challenge.Comment
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