As time goes by, the novice Ubuntu user quickly gains the experience and skills necessary to be an advanced user. This type of user is characterized by using the terminal among other things for the installation of programs. In this case it is famous to use the apt-get command although there are other commands that will make us install programs and applications in a matter of seconds.
In this case I am talking about the application Apt-fast, an improved fork of the apt-get system which will make the installations super fast. To get an idea, when with apt-get a program goes down to 32 kb / s, with apt-fast the same program goes down to 850 kb / s. These results are impressive and real since the creator of apt-fast, Matt Parnell, use download managers like aria2c to make simultaneous connections.
Unfortunately apt-fast is not in the official Ubuntu repositories (at the moment) so for its installation we have to use external repositories. In any case, the operation of apt-fast is the same as that of apt-get and its configuration is very simpleThe only downside is that we have to be vigilant so that when it makes any download it does not ask us if we really want to download that package or not.
Apt-fast installation
The apt-fast installation must be done with a terminal since it is not in the official repositories. Once the terminal is open we write the following:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:apt-fast/stable sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install apt-fast
And after this the installation will begin and then the configuration wizard will jump. It is very important to be attentive to the latter. Once configured and installed to install a package we have to use the command apt fast install instead of the traditional system.
Conclusion
Many users warn that apt-fast has become a very important tool of their Ubuntu, something that really speeds up the installation processes and that it may be interesting to have or at least try in our Ubuntu Do not you think?
For Ubuntu versions 14.04 and later the commands will be the following,
sudo add-apt-repository ppa: saiarcot895 / myppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install apt-fast
Thank you very much, the option above that gives in launchpad had already been tried and it did not work. 🙂
Thanks Jovanny for the info I couldn't install it and thanks to you I was able to do it, greetings !.
I can't, it tells me this: Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that
you asked for an impossible situation or, if you are using the distribution
unstable, that some necessary packages have not been created or have
been moved out of Incoming.
The following information can help resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
apt-fast: Depends: aria2 but not installable
E: Problems could not be corrected, you have retained broken packages.
Hi, according to Jovanny, but look at the layout. As for what happens to Alfonso, have you tried installing Aria2? In some, my or Jovanny's installation is enough, but others say they need to install aria2. Try and tell us. Thanks a lot.
I've already installed it according to Jovanny says. Thanks to both.