On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 2:01 AM, Rajko M. <rmatov101@charter.net> wrote:

On Sunday 22 February 2009 12:40:22 pm Jay Mistry wrote:

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What are metalinks for the repositories, as are mentioned in the link below ?

http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/Factory:/Desktop/openS USE_11.1/

Can they be enabled (or added as repos) in Yast --> Software --> Repositories ? Is there an advantage/disadvantage to using metalinks instead of standard repo links ?

Hi Jay,

Here is few articles on openSUSE wiki about metalinks and its usage.

http://en.opensuse.org/Metalinks http://en.opensuse.org/Build_Service/Redirector#Built-in%20Metalink%20suppor... http://en.opensuse.org/Libzypp/Failover

The most important part is client program aria2c . http://en.opensuse.org/Aria2c

Rajko, Thanks for the weblinks. There is a GUI front-end for aria2 also, called "aria2fe".

You can use it with zypper. For instance:   ZYPP_ARIA2C=1 zypper up to make zypper to use aria2c instead of curl. Though, be aware that is not yet advertised as user ready, but it worked for me. The aria2c is a bit aggressive with number of connections, but that should be already fixed in factory.

The ( http://en.opensuse.org/Libzypp/Failover) page speaks of enabling aria2c by default for YaST/zypper everytime an update /install is done. How can one do this ? (I am not sure of the instructions on the webpage). Jay -- Registered Linux User # 483705 @ http://counter.li.org/ (openSUSE 11.1, i686) Smolts Profile: http://www.smolts.org/client/show/?uuid=pub_b541a450-9bc1-45fd-beab-d46ee43a... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org