Prevent packages from update, on Debian and Fedora

Posted on October 4, 2012 by Geekster — No Comments ↓

Preventing packages from update may be needed sometimes. This task varies from distro to distro, actually from package manager to package manager. This is how you prevent packages from update, on Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Knoppix, and other debian based…

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How to Install and Use apt-fast For Faster Installations and Updates

Posted on September 8, 2012 by Geekster — No Comments ↓

From what I have noticed, apt-fast is much faster than the classical apt-get package manager for Debian based distros. The apt-fast tool is a wrapper that uses axel as the default download manager. apt-fast is good for low network connections,…

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Prevent packages from update, on Debian and Fedora

How to Install and Use apt-fast For Faster Installations and Updates