Axel: alternativa ao wget

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Um artigo no vivaolinux sobre como agilizar a instalação de pacotes usando o axel, na verdade contido em um scrip chamado apt-fast.

Um vídeo sobre o apt-fast que usa o axel


Artigo em ingles sobre o apt-fast neste link.

script apt-fast

	#!/bin/sh
	# !/bin/sh
	# apt-fast v0.02 by Matt Parnell http://www.mattparnell.com, this thing is fully open-source
	# if you do anything cool with it, let me know so I can publish or host it for you
	# contact me at admin@mattparnell.com
	# Special thanks to Travis/travisn000 from the PCLinux Forums for making improvements that allow
	# for more complex apt-get commands. See the thread: http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,66385.0.html
	# Use this just like apt-get for faster package downloading. Make sure to have axel installed.
	# sudo cp apt-fast.sh /usr/bin/apt-fast
	# sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/apt-fast
	# sudo apt-fast update
	# apt-fast install program
	# test if the axel is installed
	if [ ! -x /usr/bin/axel ];
	then echo "axel is not installed, perform this?(y/n)"
	read ops
	case $ops in
	y) if apt-get install axel -y --force-yes
	then echo "axel installed"
	else echo "unable to install the axel. you are using sudo?" ; exit
	fi ;;
	n) echo "not possible usage apt-fast" ; exit ;;
	esac
	fi
	# If the user entered arguments contain upgrade, install, or dist-upgrade
	if echo "$@" | grep -q "upgrade\|install\|dist-upgrade"; then
	echo "Working...";
	# Go into the directory apt-get normally puts downloaded packages
	cd /var/cache/apt/archives/;
	# Have apt-get print the information, including the URI's to the packages
	# Strip out the URI's, and download the packages with Axel for speediness
	# I found this regex elsewhere, showing how to manually strip package URI's you may need...thanks to whoever wrote it
	apt-get -y --print-uris $@ | egrep -o -e "(ht|f)tp://[^\']+" > apt-fast.list && cat apt-fast.list | xargs -l1 axel -a
	# Perform the user's requested action via apt-get
	apt-get $@;
	echo -e "\nDone! Verify that all packages were installed successfully. If errors are found, run apt-get clean as root and try again using apt-get directly.\n";
	else
	apt-get $@;
	fi

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