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Hello guys, good morning. :)

Just wanna share this to you guys.

Lots of Ubuntu users and other Ubuntu based using "apt-get" for updating and upgrading their programs. One thing I noticed with "apt-get" when you run this in the Terminal, the download speed slows down like a turtle. You have to wait for an hour or more than that before download will be completed. I found this little script from Ubuntu Forums and Oh men, I'm very amazed with this "apt-fast". It can download anything on apt-get 8 to 26 times faster. The "apt-fast" script is a little shellscript that increases the speed of apt-get by many times. This will work for any distro that uses apt-get and the concept should work most of the others.

To do this, you need first to download and install the axel download accelerator.

To install: sudo apt-get install axel

Once installed, we are ready to setup apt-fast.

Download the latest "apt-fast". The latest version will always be the one named "apt-fast.sh". Then, just place the script somewhere (/usr/bin or /usr/sbin is ideal). Rename the "apt-fast.sh" to "apt-fast" (without the .sh extension) and type in the terminal "sudo chmod +x apt-fast".

Once you are done, just use it like "apt-get". To install a single package, make sure your database is up to date (apt-fast update)

To update: sudo apt-fast update
To upgrade: sudo apt-fast upgrade
To dis-upgrade: sudo apt-fast dist-upgrade
To install: sudo apt-fast install packagename

Watch it, download with incredible speed and install your requested packages. That's it!

Source

Hope this help with you guys.

Take care and God bless.

noted sir.

pero mas gusto gamitin aptitude

salamat dito sir

Hello rsalvador, good evening. :)

I don't see any difference between aptitude and apt-get. What's with aptitude that apt-get and apt-fast don't have?

Take care and God bless. :)

SHENGTON wrote:


Hi Shengton
at some instances they are the same. However at some point aptitude is better. Aptititude will lookup and download all the required libraries needed by the program that you were trying to install not unlike apt that it will only install the program at regard. Let me get back to you for a more concrete examples, this is only based on my experience. But correct me if I am wrong on this regard. thank you.

Hello rsalvador, good day. :)

That would be great, I really like additional informations. Thanks in advance!

Take care and God bless. :)

@All

To those who are using YLMF OS you can use this as well since the YLMF is based from Ubuntu. Have a try and see the result of your download speed.

Take care and God bless. :)

to know more about them is by reading the description.

man aptitude
man apt-get

or read how the pshychocats describe those two super cowpowers<---> supercow powers.

aptitude moo
apt-get moo

Hello, good afternoon. :)

In addition to this, you can use "axel" as a replacement of "wget" download command. Axel download is amazing.

Take care and God bless. :)