You need to use apt-fast shell script wrapper. It should speed up apt-get command/apt command and aptitude command by downloading packages with multiple connections per package. All packages are downloaded simultaneously in parallel. It uses aria2c as default download accelerator.
Install software-properties-common for PPA
You need to install the following package in order to use PPA on Ubuntu server:
$ sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
Install apt-fast tool
Type the following command on Ubuntu Linux 14.04 and later versions:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:saiarcot895/myppa
Sample outputs:
Fig.01: installing repository
$ sudo apt-get updateOR
$ sudo apt updateSample outputs:
Fig.02: refreshing repository
$ sudo apt-get -y install apt-fastOR
$ sudo apt -y install apt-fastSample outputs:
Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following additional packages will be installed: aria2 libc-ares2 libssh2-1 Suggested packages: aptitude The following NEW packages will be installed: apt-fast aria2 libc-ares2 libssh2-1 0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 1,282 kB of archives. After this operation, 4,786 kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y Get:1 http://01.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 libssh2-1 amd64 1.5.0-2 [70.3 kB] Get:2 http://ppa.launchpad.net/saiarcot895/myppa/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 apt-fast all 1.8.3~137+git7b72bb7-0ubuntu1~ppa3~xenial1 [34.4 kB] Get:3 http://01.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 libc-ares2 amd64 1.10.0-3 [33.9 kB] Get:4 http://01.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 aria2 amd64 1.19.0-1build1 [1,143 kB] 54% [4 aria2 486 kB/1,143 kB 42%] 20.4 kB/s 32s
Configure apt-fast
You will be prompted as follows (a value between 5 and 16 must be entered):
Fig.03: Set maximum number of connections
Fig.04: Yes suppress apt-fast download confirmation
$ sudo vi /etc/apt-fast.conf
Please note that this tool is not for slow network connections; it is for fast network connections. If you have a slow connection to the Internet, you are not going to benefit by this tool.
A note about Ubuntu Linux version 17.04 “zesty” and Debian Linux
Type the following command to install the same on Ubuntu 17.04 or Debian Linux based system:
$ cd /tmp
$ wget https://git.io/vokNn
$ more vokNn
$ sudo bash vokNn
How do I use apt-fast command?
The syntax is:
apt-fast command
apt-fast [options] command
To retrieve new lists of packages using apt-fast
sudo apt-fast update
To perform an upgrade using apt-fast
sudo apt-fast upgrade
To perform distribution upgrade (release or force kernel upgrade), enter:
$ sudo apt-fast dist-upgrade
To install new packages
The syntax is:
sudo apt-fast install pkg
For example, install nginx package, enter:
$ sudo apt-fast install nginx
Sample outputs:
Fig.05: Install new packages
To remove packages
$ sudo apt-fast remove pkg
$ sudo apt-fast remove nginx
To remove packages and its config files too
$ sudo apt-fast purge pkg
$ sudo apt-fast purge nginx
To remove automatically all unused packages, enter:
$ sudo apt-fast autoremove
To Download source archives
$ sudo apt-fast source pkgNameHere
To erase downloaded archive files
$ sudo apt-fast clean
To erase old downloaded archive files
$ sudo apt-fast autoclean
To verify that there are no broken dependencies
$ sudo apt-fast check
To download the binary package into the current directory
$ sudo apt-fast download pkgNameHere
$ sudo apt-fast download nginx
Sample outputs:
[#7bee0c 0B/0B CN:1 DL:0B] 07/26 15:35:42 [NOTICE] Verification finished successfully. file=/home/vivek/nginx_1.10.0-0ubuntu0.16.04.2_all.deb 07/26 15:35:42 [NOTICE] Download complete: /home/vivek/nginx_1.10.0-0ubuntu0.16.04.2_all.deb Download Results: gid |stat|avg speed |path/URI ======+====+===========+======================================================= 7bee0c|OK | n/a|/home/vivek/nginx_1.10.0-0ubuntu0.16.04.2_all.deb Status Legend: (OK):download completed.
To download and display the changelog for the given package
$ sudo apt-fast changelog pkgNameHere
$ sudo apt-fast changelog nginx
References
- Man pages – apt-fast.conf(5)
- apt-fast home page
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Anyone test this with dsh?
While this is a good way to get a bit more performance, it is also a way to mess up your link for yourself and others, if you have “bufferbloat”. There are compelling congestion control related reasons as to why we limit the number of simultaneous open full rate tcp flows to bare minimums. In the original http 1.1 standard, it was 2 flows. In the case of doing apt-get system updates, which are a task that is usually not time critical, I imagine that more than 4 is actually counter productive.
This doesn’t work.
A normal server reject more than 1 request from the same IP. So this is useless and doesn’t work
That is not true. Not all server does this.
Thanks for the tip.
BTW, the syntax for installing new packages should be
“sudo apt-fast install pkg”
Thanks for the heads up!
Remember you can disable the annoying “[NOTICE]” lines by putting “log-level=warn” at “~/.aria2/input.conf”