[SOLVED] update manager download speed?

papahonk · 10-13-2009, 11:16 AM

is it just the server is slow or really busy that it takes so long?

when it first started it tried to go at just over 100 KB/s, but as quick as i can read that on the screen. It drops to 2800 B/s, and now is at 1448 and syaing it will take well over a day to download updates. is this normal? my net book can pull youtube vids at the same time so i dont think its my connection. or is it?

tom4everitt · 10-13-2009, 11:24 AM

That sounds weird. I have been using ubuntu daily for the last year, and never had a problem with the download speed. Was always about 1000 kb/s.

firehawk256 · 10-13-2009, 11:29 AM

I must admit I am a regular Debian user but I would recommend installing netselect-apt. Then run "sudo netselect-apt" and it will calculate the fastest server for you. Then you can replace that name in /etc/apt/sources.list .

Ubuntu may have an easier way of doing it but this should also work fine.

papahonk · 10-13-2009, 11:53 AM

ok, went to.

http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/all...t-apt/download

Downloaded it package installer ran and i got,

Error: Dependency is not satisfiable: netselect (>= 0.3.ds1-1)

What did i do wrong?

i went to the first link and it loaded should i try agian from another link?

repo · 10-13-2009, 11:55 AM

Why don't you

Code:

sudo apt-get install netselect-apt

papahonk · 10-13-2009, 05:36 PM

ok i copied and pasted "sudo apt-get install netselect-apt" on to the terminal and i got

[sudo] password for mhonk:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package netselect-apt

what did i do wrong? or did i miss what you wanted me to do

tredegar · 10-13-2009, 05:54 PM

Quote:

what did i do wrong? or did i miss what you wanted me to do

Did you do a search on this?

http://www.google.co.uk/linux?hl=en&...G=Search&meta=

Many useful links are presented.

papahonk · 10-13-2009, 07:17 PM

ok i went here

http://www.go2linux.org/find_the_fas..._netselect-apt

i copy/paste

sudo aptitude install netselect-apt

into terminal and i got this

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Initializing package states... Done
Writing extended state information... Done
Couldn't find any package whose name or description matched "netselect-apt"
Couldn't find any package whose name or description matched "netselect-apt"
The following packages will be REMOVED:
linux-headers-2.6.28-11{u} linux-headers-2.6.28-11-generic{u}
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 30 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 74.7MB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]

is the server for the program down? or am i still missing something

repo · 10-14-2009, 03:30 AM

Seems netselect-apt is broken in ubuntu

You can try to use synaptic

Quote:

First you need to start up Synaptic. Then go to Settings->Repositories.
Click the Download From section, and Select 'Other'
Click "Select Best Server" button to enable synaptic to find the best and fastest repository server for you.
Synaptic will perform automated pinging, and It will select the fastest server based on its calculation