Downloader for APT

[Larkin]

Hello everyone!
How I can change downloader for APT? I want to change standart downloader to Aria2.
Thank you.

[xenopeek]

You can't use Aria2 for apt downloading I think. If this is about speeding up downloads you may consider something like apt-fast http://www.tecmint.com/use-apt-fast-com ... ls-ubuntu/.

[Larkin]

If this is about speeding up downloads...

Aria2 provides download several parts of file in one time. It is very important for me, because I have very unstable connection.

[Flemur]

If this is about speeding up downloads...

Aria2 provides download several parts of file in one time. It is very important for me, because I have very unstable connection.

You can get the URL to download by using apt-get with "--print-uris "
http://askubuntu.com/questions/367574/h ... eb-package

"Instead of fetching the files to install their URIs are printed." ...etc...

Then download the .deb files to /var/cache/apt/archives/ with Aria2. Then run the install again without the --print-uris, and it should install from the .deb files you already downloaded.

[ColonelPanic]

You can use wget in a terminal. With the -c option the download will be resumed if the connection is lost.
To download linuxmint-18.1-cinnamon-64bit.iso from kernel.org

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wget -c http://mirrors.kernel.org/linuxmint/stable/18.1/linuxmint-18.1-cinnamon-64bit.iso

Wget has been designed for robustness over slow or unstable network
connections; if a download fails due to a network problem, it will keep
retrying until the whole file has been retrieved.

http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/xen ... get.1.html