How to speed up apt downloads using apt-fast in ubuntu
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Have you ever had to install a lot of updates? And does it take you a long time? Keeping our systems always up to date is important, but it's also important to save time and optimize our work.
Apt-fast is a script that allows each package to be pulled from multiple locations during its download. This in turn leads to faster download of all packages, and this leads to faster completion of our work on updating and installing packages.
First things first, lets add the repository, download and install app-fast
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:apt-fast/stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install apt-fast Now you can use it just like apt-get or apt
sudo apt-fast update
sudo apt-fast upgrade
sudo apt-fast dist-update
Here is the output of apt-fast installing bmon
root@webleit:~# apt-fast install bmon
bmon 1:4.0-6 45KiB
libconfuse2 3.2.2+dfsg-1 24KiB
libconfuse-common 3.2.2+dfsg-1 5.4KiB
libnl-route-3-200 3.4.0-1 146KiB
Download size: 219KiB
Do you want to download the packages? [Y/n]
02/20 17:07:47 [NOTICE] Downloading 4 item(s)
02/20 17:07:47 [NOTICE] Verification finished successfully. file=/var/cache/apt/apt-fast/libconfuse2_3.2.2+dfsg-1_amd64.deb
02/20 17:07:47 [NOTICE] Download complete: /var/cache/apt/apt-fast/libconfuse2_3.2.2+dfsg-1_amd64.deb
02/20 17:07:47 [NOTICE] Verification finished successfully. file=/var/cache/apt/apt-fast/libnl-route-3-200_3.4.0-1_amd64.deb
02/20 17:07:47 [NOTICE] Download complete: /var/cache/apt/apt-fast/libnl-route-3-200_3.4.0-1_amd64.deb
02/20 17:07:47 [NOTICE] Verification finished successfully. file=/var/cache/apt/apt-fast/libconfuse-common_3.2.2+dfsg-1_all.deb
02/20 17:07:47 [NOTICE] Download complete: /var/cache/apt/apt-fast/libconfuse-common_3.2.2+dfsg-1_all.deb
02/20 17:07:47 [NOTICE] Verification finished successfully. file=/var/cache/apt/apt-fast/bmon_1%3a4.0-6_amd64.deb
02/20 17:07:47 [NOTICE] Download complete: /var/cache/apt/apt-fast/bmon_1%3a4.0-6_amd64.deb
Download Results:
gid |stat|avg speed |path/URI
======+====+===========+=======================================================
a26dfb|OK | 5.6MiB/s|/var/cache/apt/apt-fast/libconfuse2_3.2.2+dfsg-1_amd64.deb
adf53e|OK | 10MiB/s|/var/cache/apt/apt-fast/libnl-route-3-200_3.4.0-1_amd64.deb
977019|OK | 2.6MiB/s|/var/cache/apt/apt-fast/libconfuse-common_3.2.2+dfsg-1_all.deb
77f61e|OK | 5.4MiB/s|/var/cache/apt/apt-fast/bmon_1%3a4.0-6_amd64.deb
Status Legend:
(OK):download completed.
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
libconfuse-common libconfuse2 libnl-route-3-200
The following NEW packages will be installed:
bmon libconfuse-common libconfuse2 libnl-route-3-200
0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/224 kB of archives.
After this operation, 798 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
In case during download a file crashes you can use the command clean
sudo apt-fast clean The apt-fast configuration file is: ```
/etc/apt-fast.conf
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