Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Download faster with enhanced apt-get

Yes, right. System update could take longer and longer time without using this gadget. On Ubuntu, traditional package installer apt-get is great but requires something else to make downloading faster. Axel is one of the best candidate and which is also free to download and install.

To install axel at first, type this:



There is a sample script to combine the power of apt-get and axel.

Just copy and paste the script into a text file, name it ("apt-fast", whatever) and then place it into a directory like /usr/bin/ and make it available for use with the following command:



Then you can use it like apt-get command and enjoy the high speed downloading than ever before.

Good tool, indeed!

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