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apt-fast for ubuntu 14.04?

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I just upgraded to ubuntu 14.04 from ubuntu 12.04 (Which I loved) and now, I cant install apt-fast. My net connection is very slow and I want to download using apt-fast but whenever I add the apt-fast ppa and update and try to install it, It says

package apt-fast not found

How do I fix this? thank you.

I really appreciate The effort made by askubuntu (Which includes you awesome people ;)) To help me. My problem has already been answered. Here is a screenshot of my software sources. The person who answered my question has apparently removed the comment that answered my question but here is the repository that helped me add apt-fast

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:saiarcot895/myppa

So if this helps I would like to upvote each and every person who helped me and I will accept one answer too, Just give me some time to test both of them ;)

anyway thank you guys to help me. You are awesome :-) XD

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answered 3 Years ago umplegitimat · Accepted Answer

First, you my be misunderstanding the purpose of apt-fast. It's not something for slow network connections, it's something for fast network connections. If you have a slow connection to the Internet, you are not reaching the bottleneck of the repository and will not benefit by pulling from more than one repository simultaneously.

If you have a fast Internet connection, faster than the repositories, then you could benefit by pulling from more than one repository at once.

More directly to your question, did you run the sudo apt-get update after adding the repository?

In between asking the question I tried the repository on a test machine and it appears to be broken (for ubuntu/trusty 14.04). What error did you get when you tried to update the repository?

Alternatively, with the apt-fast repository broken you can use the github.

You might also communicate the broken (or unavailable 14.04) repository to the apt-fast support team.

With the knowledge that you can't benefit from it on a machine with a slow Internet connection might be a factory in how much work you want to invest in installing it on your computer.