richard  - thank you   |59.41.222.xxx |2009-06-16 18:31:37 I found it this morning, it's fast, help me a lot, thank you very much.

Toby Hyanes  - Don't forget to check for nothing...   |199.246.40.xxx |2009-11-02 09:56:13 With apt-get upgrade/ apt-get dist-upgrade, it's possible that there is nothing to do. You probably want to check the number of lines in debs.list and exit if there are no URIs to process.

armand  - problem when unpacking and installing   |196.2.10.xxx |2009-11-04 07:46:36 That's a pretty good Idea but I think needs some improvement! I tried more than once to get the job done with apt-fast , it downloads well but gives some errors when unpacking and installing. I hope u will fix it

Matt Parnell  - I use Archlinux now...not ubuntu   |198.209.32.xxx |2009-11-04 15:34:56 I don't use ubuntu anymore...feel free to fix it yourself and post it here in the comments if you'd like.

hyao  - thanks   |218.28.9.xxx |2009-11-10 07:51:35 very useful and thank you!

Michael  - Source code   |125.160.220.xxx |2010-03-06 00:40:11 Can i know where the source code is? Precious thank

Click   |78.36.131.xxx |2010-03-06 11:48:51 Super. tnx

Matt Parnell  - http://www.mattparnell.com/linux/apt-fast/   |96.15.147.xxx |2010-03-08 13:58:24 http://www.mattparnell.com/linux/apt-fast/ is where the source is. I said so in the article.

snowy  - would like to see it do more   |123.2.14.xxx |2010-03-12 01:11:40 would like apt-fast to download every package at once not separately then i could say download 20 downloads with 20 parts put together and not have to wait for all the slow mirrors before all the downloads are done plus i'd like to be able to tell what apt-fast does for instance download 1-20 downloads @ 1-20 parts the best way to show something like this is if you download a copy of jdownloader and run it with java id like to see if anyone could build this then it might just lead to a package manager with java in mined that way apt-get would be obsolite the script you wrote replaced my apt-get in ubuntu 10.04 alpha 3 please downt forget that apt-get is old hat and that apt-fast is getting soooo much better cool sh by the way would like some work done on it so it can and will beat any form of package managment on the planet loved it but it could be awsome

Xaekai   |71.227.210.xxx |2011-01-02 10:20:58 Whoa... It's a pre-fetching wrapper for apt-get. Without apt-get or similar dpkg backend it would serve no purpose. That kinda makes your old-hat and obsolete comments kinda assinine

Matt Parnell  - If you want it, you do it.   |98.134.136.xxx |2010-03-14 13:46:13 I don't use apt based Linux anymore. I use Archlinux because it's better, at least in my opinion. The script is opensource and I appreciate you enjoying it, but I'm not really working on it anymore. The PCLinuxOS guys have been the ones updating it lately. A gui would be unnecessary, by the way.

Salih Emin  - GUI is necessary   |109.178.169.xxx |2010-03-14 16:35:04 Its a great piece of script. So I've decided to integrate it in my piece of software 2clickUpdate found at https://launchpad.net/2clickupdate Its a GUI script that speeds up the updating of the operating system and programs installed without bothering you with

Ryan  - Automatic sudo   |24.152.165.xxx |2010-04-10 11:31:42 To have the script automatically sudo itself if you forget to do so, add the following line at the beginning: [ "`whoami`" = root ] || sudo "$0" "$@" Then if you run apt-fast as a normal user, it will simply re-run itself with sudo.

Ryan  - Fixed auto-sudo   |24.152.165.xxx |2010-04-10 11:59:15 Oops! Here's the fixed line: [ "`whoami`" = root ] || exec sudo "$0" "$@"

David Nesting  - Auto-sudo harmful   |173.13.184.xxx |2010-11-15 10:06:29 This isn't a great security practice. Don't train users to type their password into any script that asks them for it. How do they know that it's really sudo asking them for their password? Train them to explicitly use sudo when the situation calls for it.

Salih Emin  - 2clickUpdate has implemented Axel   |79.103.252.xxx |2010-04-14 06:32:37 As I mentiond in previous comment I was going to integrate axel in 2clickUpdate. You can read full announcement at http://cerebrux.comli.com/news/2clickupdate/2010/0 4/2click-update-v5-5-going-lightning-with-axel/ H ope it is usefull to you people !

Jimmy Chan   |183.178.28.xxx |2010-04-25 01:18:05 First of all, thanks for the wonderful script, Matt. I normally use the "-s" flag to simulate the upgrade or install before actually doing so. However, the current apt-fast doesn't understand this flag. So I replace the line in the apt-fast script: if echo "$@" | grep -q "upgrade\|install\|dist-upgrade"; then with this line: if echo "$@" | grep -v '\-s' | grep -q "upgrade\|install\|dist-upgrade"; then such that it will now pass the "-s" flag to apt-get correctly. I also add in my ~/.bash_aliases the following two lines. Now I can use apt-get in the old way with apt-fast actually doing the work. The first line is necessary since apt-get requires root privilege. alias sudo='sudo ' alias apt-get='apt-fast'

RTEK1000  - Im brasilian congratulations!!! (eu sou brasileiro   |189.28.224.xxx |2010-06-04 18:29:42 Very good!!! (muito bom!!!)

RTEK1000  - opss brazilian...not brasilian   |189.28.224.xxx |2010-06-04 18:31:27

Spyzer  - Apt-fast with aria2c support   |210.212.48.xxx |2010-07-02 08:19:37 Hi Matt, Since I am behind a proxy network with authentication, axel somehow wasn't working for me and so i changed the script to support aria2c download accelerator/manager (which ofcourse ran for me in my network). I have mailed u the script, hope u find it to the best. Bbye!!!

Vince  - Aptitude vs apt-get   |82.247.53.xxx |2010-07-26 16:36:36 aptitude seems better than apt-get is it possible to update apt-fat to use aptitude instead of apt-get ?

Ron  - apt-fast and aptitude   |99.72.233.xxx |2011-05-08 13:52:20 I've modified the script to use apt-get to download the files and aptitude to install them. I had to use apt-get to do the downloading because aptitude doesn't support the --print-uris option. I also added a section that checks if aptitude is installed and if not offers to install it. I'm not actually a programmer or scripter. I just looked at what was there and did my best to copy by example on what I saw. There may be horrific mistakes in there, so if someone can look at it and see if it's okay that would be great. You can download it from: http://www.dropfiles.net/download.php?file= 87apt-fast-aptitude.sh (is dropfiles okay or should I put it somewhere else?) If you try it remember to follow the instructions above about moving it to /usr/bin and taking of the .sh and making it executable.

Clint  - Return success or failure please   |173.16.98.xxx |2010-10-03 17:35:52 It is possible to write a script using apt-get with an if statement to allow something to happen if the install succeeded or failed, but with apt-fast it is not possible. ex) if sudo apt-get --yes -qq install chromium-browser; then notify-send "Installed" "Chromium" -i /usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/chromium-br owser.svg; else notify-send "Failed to install" "Chromium" -i /usr/share/icons/Humanity/status/48/aptdaemon-dele te.svg; fi

Nathaniel  - Very Fast..,   |112.198.79.xxx |2010-12-27 00:48:04 It's been a long search and now this is it.., A Segmented connection for apt-get Installation works.., thanks

Aksoy  - How to increase the speed a bit more...   |83.101.139.xxx |2011-03-05 23:07:23 I've seen the script and it's pretty good. I'm currently using it with a few modifications that I've made. I wanted to let you know how to increase the speed a bit more. Actually in certain cases it may increase it a lot. In the script, the line that calls the axel program has only one parameter which is -a. This makes the program run in a more quite mode. If you add this parameter -n 20 next to it, it will make the axel download with more connections, in this case 20. If you don't use it the default is 4 which I believe is quite a small value. Try to update it with this new parameter, you will see the difference as an overall performance.

Xaekai   |71.227.210.xxx |2011-03-09 17:44:13 #!/bin/bash #~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~# #~~ apt-fast.sh: A prefetching apt-get wrapper. Xaekai's Performance Edition ~~# #~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~# #~~ Copyright (C) 2011 Xaekai ~ ribbon13@gmail.com ~ Released under GPLv3 ~~# #~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~# #~~ This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it ~~# #~~ under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the ~~# #~~ Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your ~~# #~~ option) any later version. ~~# #~~ http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html ~~# #~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~# # Originally by ...

Xaekai   |71.227.210.xxx |2011-03-09 17:46:27 Aff.. No previews is kinda fail. http://www.frozen-hell.org/xaerc.d/apt-fast .sh

tommis   |81.197.98.xxx |2011-03-19 04:51:17 Could you please create page to launchpad so this could be translated? I can do finnish translation.

Dudeonyx  - New mod   |64.255.180.xxx |2011-04-09 09:51:31 I've created a mod of the version of apt-fast that uses aria2c . This mod adds the much needed resume support to apt-get and instead of directly downloading the deb's to the apt archive folder it downloads them in a temp folder and then makes symbolic links only to the completed deb's in the /var/cache/apt/archives folder. The code that links only the completed deb's and ignores incompleted ones took me a particularly time long to make.(p.s this is from an 18 yr old who 4 weeks ago had never heard of linux,and 2 weeks ago had typed a single command line) so when i upload it could someone with experience look over the code and maybe clean it up a bit.

Andres Vidal   |186.5.81.xxx |2011-05-29 15:17:59 Where is your code located? I would like to try it out. .

ubuntu 11.04   |41.224.190.xxx |2011-05-12 10:38:07 I do all this things, but, there is anythings change.

CP  - connection hang   |38.99.14.xxx |2011-07-05 10:19:06 I have just started trying out the script. Following the instruction above, I downloaded the http://www.mattparnell.com/linux/apt-fast/apt-fast %20modded/apt-fast_autocompletion.tar.gz and placed the apt-fast script in /usr/sbin and installed axel package Everything works great except I see that 75% of the time the download waits for connection 0 seems to just idle for a long time before it starts the download. In the mean time connections 1 to 3 blaze through the download process using 90% of the bandwidth. Is there a step I am missing somewhere

eddi  - wow   |114.79.20.xxx |2011-07-06 12:14:16 wow, awesome...apt-fast scripts it works, fast better than apt-get. proof

shebaw   |213.55.77.xxx |2011-08-23 08:04:16 Thanks

tanaka taro   |126.29.218.xxx |2011-10-31 06:52:48 The apt-fast is wonderful from: http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu/pool/games/u/urba nterror/urbanterror_20100418-1~getdeb1_i386.deb

tanaka taro   |126.29.218.xxx |2011-10-31 06:56:44 The apt-fast is wonderful from:urbanterror_20100418-1~getdeb1_i386.deb to hiroshima japan user@user-Aspire-3100:~$ sudo apt-fast install urbanterror 1.8MB/s 10min

tanaka taro   |126.29.218.xxx |2011-10-31 06:57:46 The apt-fast is wonderful user@user-Aspire-3100:~$ sudo apt-get install urbanterror 500KB/s 50min

changlianxi  - The apt-fast is wonderful   |122.140.15.xxx |2012-02-19 15:44:17 look that http://forum.ubuntu.org.cn/viewtopic.php?f=95 &t=364344&sid=1361f70c91c01f13e7b5248cc2ecdcb9

apt-fast uset  - what change should i do to...   |115.248.58.xxx |2012-02-20 11:30:58 what change should i do to the script so that axel connects to this url: www.example.com/dir/file.deb?abcdefg instead of www.example.com/dir/file.deb where is www.example.com/dir/file.deb is the url of the package which is being retreived by apt-fast using axel.

Magomer  - Apt-Fast & 64bit   |87.5.217.xxx |2012-02-25 17:05:35 Hi, i used apt-fast on 32bit without problems but now i wanted to try a 64bit version and I have problems to install apt-fast. Can you help me? Thanks =)

thecanadiansandbox  - suggestion: apt-fast total progress bar   |24.246.24.xxx |2012-03-02 16:44:10 Hello, I noticed when using the apt-fast script I get a % progress for every download, but there is no total progress. I am unsure if this is already implemented or if it is something that can be simply configured, but I believe it would be a very good feature to add to the script. A simple total progress percentage for an entire apt-fast operation.

ericpeamale thingy79  - THANK YOU!   |96.38.41.xxx |2012-04-25 18:32:02 THANK YOU I just installed this on Precise Pangolin fresh install and it's working great. First I had to install synaptic and install axel before apt-fast would work. I was trying to download a very long list of packages (dpkg --set-selections

Anonymous   |2.183.104.xxx |2012-04-29 11:41:46 hi,,,when i wan to copy .sh file to bin ,,,give me this error : permission denied.. Please what do i do????

BostonPeng  - Can we get some dummies instructions?   |64.134.242.xxx |2012-06-30 06:31:39 I saw an article about using apt-fast with Ubuntu on MakeTechEasier and I'd like to give it a try on Linux Mint Debian Edition. While I'm pretty good at installing apps form source, and from Git, I'm not sure what files I need and what needs to be run. Could you explain the process for dummies like me? Thanks. I look forward to using apt-fast.

Dominique Lasserre   |95.88.250.xxx |2012-06-30 07:37:01 You can use official PPA. Add following line to your sources.list: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/apt-fast/stable/ubuntu quantal main It doesn't matter if you are not using Ubuntu or Quantal. Everything is written in scripting languages so apt-fast is portable.

BostonPeng  - PPA on Debian?   |64.134.242.xxx |2012-06-30 07:48:54 Thank you, Matt. It's going to feel really odd putting a PPA in my sources since I'm one of the people who remind folks that using PPA's on LMDE is a bad idea since Ubuntu PPA's are generally different enough from how Debian does things that it can break things. Thanks for making it easier for us non-Ubuntu Debian users to get apt-fast.

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