abarbarian Posted June 8, 2021 Share Posted June 8, 2021 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted June 8, 2021 Share Posted June 8, 2021 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted June 8, 2021 Author Share Posted June 8, 2021 (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, 2021 by abarbarian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted June 8, 2021 Share Posted June 8, 2021 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted June 8, 2021 Author Share Posted June 8, 2021 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 ????????????????? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted June 8, 2021 Share Posted June 8, 2021 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted June 8, 2021 Author Share Posted June 8, 2021 (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, 2021 by abarbarian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted June 8, 2021 Share Posted June 8, 2021 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted June 9, 2021 Author Share Posted June 9, 2021 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted June 9, 2021 Share Posted June 9, 2021 Nope, I'm running the latest version of steam with no problems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted June 9, 2021 Share Posted June 9, 2021 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted June 9, 2021 Author Share Posted June 9, 2021 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted June 9, 2021 Share Posted June 9, 2021 Right and remove the # before [multilib] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted June 15, 2021 Author Share Posted June 15, 2021 Blimey what wiv the .zst and parallel(10) downloads updating is super fast. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted June 15, 2021 Share Posted June 15, 2021 .zst? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted June 16, 2021 Author Share Posted June 16, 2021 (edited) 20 hours ago, securitybreach said: .zst? as in, auracle-git-r366.8739929-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst Edited June 16, 2021 by abarbarian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 Ah, I don't use many AUR packages so haven't ran across the new archive yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunrat Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 Well I wouldn't say catching up as I always had fast updates, just only one at a time downloaded Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted June 17, 2021 Author Share Posted June 17, 2021 23 hours ago, securitybreach said: Ah, I don't use many AUR packages so haven't ran across the new archive yet. On 6/16/2021 at 9:14 AM, abarbarian said: auracle-git Thought you rebuilt and installed the latest above. Did you not check your install or did things happen so fast you could not keep up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted June 17, 2021 Share Posted June 17, 2021 Nope, I use yay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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