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Speed up your pacman in Arch Linux

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 Hey , Today i am going to show you how to speed up your pacman in arch linux to do that we should configure Pacman with aria2 aria2 : is a lightweight multi-protocol & multi-threaded command-line download utility. It supports HTTP/HTTPS, FTP and BitTorrent Configure aria2 with Pacman : First you need to install aria2, install aria2 : $sudo pacman -S aria2 then you need to configure pacman to use aria2 for downloading packages open pacman conf file : $sudo nano /etc/pacman.conf then add the following new entry just below the #XferCommand = /usr/bin/curl -C - -f %u > %o line. add this : XferCommand = /usr/bin/aria2c --allow-overwrite=true --continue=true --file-allocation=none --log-level=error --max-tries=2 --max-connection-per-server=4 --max-file-not-found=1 --min-split-size=1M --no-conf --remote-time=true --summary-interval=60 --timeout=5 --dir=/ --out %o %u now save the file by typing ctrl + x That’s it! now you can test spe...
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How to install PacketTracer in Arch linux

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hey guys , I am going to show you now how to install packet tracer on arch linux . So follow me :  1 _ first you need to download the snapshot ( packettracer.tar.gz ) from aur site : https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/packettracer/   or   click here to downlaod 2 _ second download the tarball from  http://netacad.com you need to create an account , so create one please ;)  entry to https://www.netacad.com/courses/packet-tracer-download/ follow the steps to create your Networking Academy registration and after that you will be allowed to download the tarball . second entry to the download page https://www.netacad.com/group/offerings/packet-tracer/  download the linux version (Ubuntu version ) PacketTracer71_64bit_linux.tar.gz 3 _ after downloading all the packages , extract the snapshot : the file that have the name : packettracer.tar.gz use the command $tar -xvf and you will get the dir packettracer/  4 _ no...
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