On 20/11/09 00:03, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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On 11/19/2009 12:32 PM, Basil Chupin wrote:
On 19/11/09 20:32, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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On 11/19/2009 10:16 AM, Basil Chupin wrote:
On 19/11/09 19:21, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Oh, there is also something called "aria2" which some people are rather fond of but I have never tried it.
Well, that cute thing is behing zypper ability to download from several servers at a time, bypasing problems with bad or stuck connections or mirrors. Not available for 11.0, experimental on 11.1 if you use an environment variable (ZYPP_ARIA2C=1), and perhaps used by default on 11.2
Right. Which means that we need to wait for the better developed of airia2 at some later date - or switch to smart?
Why? What problem do you have with it now?
None at all. I don't use it (nor smart).
zypper has been pushed by oS as its file manager for, what, 2-3 years now, and when aria2 becomes the preferred choice - unless some other app. becomes "flavour of the month" - I'll just stay with zypper :-) .
Aria2 is not a package manager. It is the main downloader application/library used by zypper internally to download files.
Must then have a look at it.
There is also a command line application, aria2c, which you can use for downloading the oS isos, using metalinks. It can download from several servers at the same time, and/or use torrent, and even correct a bad download retrieving the bad section instead of the entire file.
I use Down'EmAll, which is an extension for Firefox, for this purpose. BC -- I work to live not live to work. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org