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How to speed up apt-get updates? Apt is the package manager used on Ubuntu and Debian systems, it's been around for a while and it should be around for a lot more, yet it has a problem: it downloads only one package at a time thus making it slow sometimes, specially if you have tons of tinny packages to update. The solution: apt-fast ! Downloads packages in parallel making A LOT faster. How to install sudo add-apt-repository ppa:apt-fast/stable sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get -y install apt-fast How to use it sudo apt-fast update sudo apt-fast upgrade apt-fast installation That's it!   Obviously the more packages you're installing/upgrading the more you'll notice the difference.