Speed up your pacman in Arch Linux
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...