Posts Tagged ‘apt-get’

Apt-p2p for peer-to-peer Debian package downloads

Apt-p2p gives you the ability to download Debian packages via a peer-to-peer protocol. Apt-p2p will try to get the packages from peers before it resorts to pulling them from the repository. This saves bandwidth for the repository servers, can speed up your download speed, and ads to the sense of community which Debian is so [...]

Get more from APT

Every Debian user should have a good relationship with APT. We use it for all sorts of stuff and it has made our daily computing life so much easier. apt-get is great but there are more apt utilities out there that can make things even better. I introduce to you some great additions to APT.

apt-build
apt-rdepends
netselect-apt

apt-build
apt-build [...]