apt-fast : A Bash Script to Speed Things Along

[r1ft]

Has anyone managed to get this working in 12.04?

[amgmagician]

Has anyone managed to get this working in 12.04?

It's a simple script but a little messy. I'm trying to fix some bugs and write a clean, generic, and flexible script.
In addition, I'm going to build a package for apt-fast and share it ASAP. It can be run on almost all debian-based systems.

[sportfreak2020]

testing this today in 12.04 server installation .. will update back!

[vasa1]

Has anyone managed to get this working in 12.04?

Works just fine.

[sportfreak2020]

it works !

[strobon]

manage to install it on 12.04,works fine so far.
but 2 problem:
1.seems like the auto completion doesn't working for me

cp ./apt-fast.comp /etc/bash_completion.d/apt-fast
. /etc/bash_completion

run this command,check the folder,everything is in order.but not work.

2.this is silly question,but how to complete replace the apt-get with apt-fast? so ubuntu software center use it too.
i try rename apt-get to aptg.get.old and link apt-fast to apt-get,but its not working for me.


for my bad english.
pardon me..

[vasa1]

http://iloveubuntu.net/apt-fast-164-...uration-dialog

But this page doesn't have any mention of 1.6.4 ???

But the launchpad page refers to the git page so my doubts have vanished.

But there's no mention of a ppa as yet on the Launchpad page (https://launchpad.net/apt-fast). Back to being confused.

[vasa1]

Okay, the ppa is here: https://launchpad.net/~apt-fast

[vasa1]

I noticed one difference from the earlier version. I'm not sure it's because of a tweak I made or didn't make. Either way ...

In Configuration options (/etc/apt-fast.conf), ensure that "DOWNLOADBEFORE=true" is not commented out. If it is commented out and you don't pay attention, you may be timed out and then there's a chance that you may need to download ~ 6 MB of data again (because of the large updates in 12.04).

# Enable DOWNLOADBEFORE to suppress apt-fast confirmation dialog and download
# packages directly.
#
# Default: dialog enabled
#
DOWNLOADBEFORE=true

[vasa1]

Apt-fast gets a mention again: http://www.webupd8.org/2012/10/speed...-with-apt.html