Speed up apt-get updates

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.