powerpill
A wrapper for pacman that speeds up package retrieval by using aria2c for concurrent/segmented downloads.
Package Information
| Latest version: | 17.1 |
|---|---|
| Source files: | powerpill-17.1.tar.gz |
| Man page: | http://xyne.archlinux.ca/manpages/powerpill |
| Binary package: | powerpill-17.1-1-any.pkg.tar.gz [xyne-any] |
| Repos: | [xyne-any] [community] |
| PKGBUILD etc: | http://xyne.archlinux.ca/pkgbuilds/powerpill |
| TAURball: | powerpill.tar.gz |
| Arch forum thread: | http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=56583 |
About
Read the man page.
Screenshots
Using Powerpill with Other Wrappers
Note that you can wrap powerpill around pacman-color and then wrap yaourt around pacman.
Yaourt
To use powerpill with yaourt, change the "PacmanBin" setting in your "yaourtrc" file and then run yaourt normally:
PacmanBin /usr/bin/powerpill
Pacman-Color
To use powerpill with pacman-color, change the "PacmanBin" setting in your "powerpill.conf" file and then run powerpill normally:
PacmanBin /usr/bin/pacman-color
