Archive for March, 2012

Download apt-get Packages in Parallel with this Shell Script

Friday, March 16th, 2012

Sometimes you want to apt-get installer packages in Debian or Ubuntu Linux, but downloading a lot of them in series can take a really long time. Here’s a script that does it for you; all you do is tell it what packages, and it fetches all the dependencies.
A full listing is below.

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