abarbarian 3,473 Posted June 8 Share Posted June 8 https://ostechnix.com/enable-parallel-downloading-in-pacman-in-arch-linux/ Quote The latest pacman version is 6.0. The major change for this release is the implementation of parallel downloads. Yes, this feature downloads multiple files at the same time! For instance, if you install something that need 4 dependencies, all files are downloaded in parallel by the same pacman instance, rather than one after the other. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
securitybreach 11,506 Posted June 8 Share Posted June 8 Yeah, I forgot to post that last week. I first used 10 and then worked my way up to 100 on Linode VPS, I finally settled on 20 on all my machines as I have a gigabit connection # Misc options Color CheckSpace VerbosePkgLists ILoveCandy ParallelDownloads = 20 Using 100 parallels in Action: https://i.imgur.com/qq4g1R5.mp4 (Just installing gnome in a vm to see how fast it would go). 1 Link to post Share on other sites
abarbarian 3,473 Posted June 8 Author Share Posted June 8 (edited) 11 minutes ago, securitybreach said: Yeah, I forgot to post that last week. I first used 10 and then worked my way up to 100 on Linode VPS, I finally settled on 20 on all my machines as I have a gigabit connection # Misc options Color CheckSpace VerbosePkgLists ILoveCandy ParallelDownloads = 20 Using 100 parallels in Action: https://i.imgur.com/qq4g1R5.mp4 (Just installing gnome in a vm to see how fast it would go). Wow yer downloads must be as fast as ................................................................................. Edited June 8 by abarbarian Link to post Share on other sites
securitybreach 11,506 Posted June 8 Share Posted June 8 1 minute ago, abarbarian said: Wow yer downloads must be as fast as ................................................................................. I can nto get the link to work in FF ? Odd as its just an imgur link. Open the link in another tab Link to post Share on other sites
abarbarian 3,473 Posted June 8 Author Share Posted June 8 12 minutes ago, securitybreach said: Odd as its just an imgur link. Open the link in another tab Working now, must have been a stray gremlin. However, # Misc options #UseSyslog Color TotalDownload CheckSpace #VerbosePkgLists ParallelDownloads = 10 # Misc options #UseSyslog Color TotalDownload CheckSpace #VerbosePkgLists ParallelDownloads=10 gets me warning: config file /etc/pacman.conf, line 37: directive 'ParallelDownloads' in section 'options' not recognised ????????????????? Link to post Share on other sites
securitybreach 11,506 Posted June 8 Share Posted June 8 19 minutes ago, abarbarian said: Working now, must have been a stray gremlin. However, # Misc options #UseSyslog Color TotalDownload CheckSpace #VerbosePkgLists ParallelDownloads = 10 # Misc options #UseSyslog Color TotalDownload CheckSpace #VerbosePkgLists ParallelDownloads=10 gets me warning: config file /etc/pacman.conf, line 37: directive 'ParallelDownloads' in section 'options' not recognised ????????????????? Sounds like you haven't updated pacman: pacman -Qi pacman Link to post Share on other sites
abarbarian 3,473 Posted June 8 Author Share Posted June 8 (edited) 28 minutes ago, securitybreach said: Sounds like you haven't updated pacman: Yeah I realised that eventually. Did the update and changed out the .pacnew file. Tried to do an update check and now me AUR stuff don't seem to be updating, ????????????????? Hmm looks like it is a problem with pacaur. -->paci steam :: Package steam not found in repositories, trying AUR... :: resolving dependencies... auracle: error while loading shared libraries: libalpm.so.12: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory auracle: error while loading shared libraries: libalpm.so.12: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory auracle: error while loading shared libraries: libalpm.so.12: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory :: no results found for steam Edited June 8 by abarbarian Link to post Share on other sites
securitybreach 11,506 Posted June 8 Share Posted June 8 8 hours ago, abarbarian said: Yeah I realised that eventually. Did the update and changed out the .pacnew file. Tried to do an update check and now me AUR stuff don't seem to be updating, ????????????????? Well, like it mentions... "auracle: error while loading shared libraries: libalpm.so" You just need to reinstall auracle, I had to do the same with yay wget https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/snapshot/auracle-git.tar.gz\ tar -xzf auracle-git.tar.gz cd auracle-git makepkg -si Link to post Share on other sites
abarbarian 3,473 Posted June 9 Author Share Posted June 9 On 6/8/2021 at 1:27 PM, securitybreach said: You just need to reinstall auracle, I had to do the same with yay Yep I did a rebuild but pacaur would not rebuild. So I left it overnight and tired again and this time things worked in the main. Pacaur can update and install most things However there is a problem with steam. lib32-orc is not present in AUR -- skipping :: lib32-p11-kit is not present in AUR -- skipping :: lib32-pam is not present in AUR -- skipping :: lib32-pango is not present in AUR -- skipping :: lib32-pcre is not present in AUR -- skipping :: lib32-pixman is not present in AUR -- skipping :: lib32-polkit is not present in AUR -- skipping :: lib32-readline is not present in AUR -- skipping :: lib32-rest is not present in AUR -- skipping :: lib32-sdl2 is not present in AUR -- skipping :: lib32-sqlite is not present in AUR -- skipping :: lib32-systemd is not present in AUR -- skipping :: lib32-tdb is not present in AUR -- skipping :: lib32-util-linux is not present in AUR -- skipping :: lib32-v4l-utils is not present in AUR -- skipping :: lib32-vkd3d is not present in AUR -- skipping :: lib32-vulkan-icd-loader is not present in AUR -- skipping :: lib32-wayland is not present in AUR -- skipping :: lib32-xz is not present in AUR -- skipping :: lib32-zlib is not present in AUR -- skipping :: lib32-zstd is not present in AUR -- skipping :: steam is not present in AUR -- skipping :: wine-staging is not present in AUR -- skipping :: winetricks is not present in AUR -- skipping there is nothing to do The install of steam I have runs ok but it will not update. I am guessing that the Arch version of steam has not been updated with the pacman 6 stuff. I will give it a couple of days and try again. Hopefully it will sort itself out. Link to post Share on other sites
securitybreach 11,506 Posted June 9 Share Posted June 9 Nope, I'm running the latest version of steam with no problems. Link to post Share on other sites
securitybreach 11,506 Posted June 9 Share Posted June 9 Of I know your problem. The multilib repo is disabled in pacman.conf. You must of let it overwrite your config file. That's why stream won't update and you are getting all of the lib32 packages not found. Link to post Share on other sites
abarbarian 3,473 Posted June 9 Author Share Posted June 9 28 minutes ago, securitybreach said: Of I know your problem. The multilib repo is disabled in pacman.conf. You must of let it overwrite your config file. That's why stream won't update and you are getting all of the lib32 packages not found. Almost correct. I had done the .pacnew thing but forgot, #[multilib] Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist Link to post Share on other sites
securitybreach 11,506 Posted June 9 Share Posted June 9 Right and remove the # before [multilib] Link to post Share on other sites
abarbarian 3,473 Posted yesterday at 11:23 AM Author Share Posted yesterday at 11:23 AM Blimey what wiv the .zst and parallel(10) downloads updating is super fast. Link to post Share on other sites
securitybreach 11,506 Posted yesterday at 12:12 PM Share Posted yesterday at 12:12 PM .zst? Link to post Share on other sites
abarbarian 3,473 Posted 14 hours ago Author Share Posted 14 hours ago (edited) 20 hours ago, securitybreach said: .zst? as in, auracle-git-r366.8739929-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst Edited 14 hours ago by abarbarian Link to post Share on other sites
securitybreach 11,506 Posted 12 hours ago Share Posted 12 hours ago Ah, I don't use many AUR packages so haven't ran across the new archive yet. Link to post Share on other sites
sunrat 2,339 Posted 11 hours ago Share Posted 11 hours ago Good to see Arch is catching up. My recent Debian upgrade came down at 25MB/s. I only have a meagre 256Mb/s pipe though so can't test how fast it would be with gigabit. Link to post Share on other sites
securitybreach 11,506 Posted 11 hours ago Share Posted 11 hours ago Well I wouldn't say catching up as I always had fast updates, just only one at a time downloaded Link to post Share on other sites
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