apt-p2p

Note: This documentation is about an obsolete package.

Since most users have fast Internet connection it is a good idea to use peer-to-peer technologies for package management. It could be faster if a lot of Trisquel users use it, it will not load Trisquel servers.

First of all you should install apt-p2p:

sudo apt-get install apt-p2p

Next step you may wish to reconfigure it:

sudo nano /etc/apt-p2p/apt-p2p.conf

Here you can, for example, change the port it will listen on and switch to DHT-only mode. If you are behind the firewall — don't forget to open apt-p2p port (default is 9977) on it!

Then let us change apt config:

sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list

Replace every "http://" to "http://localhost:9977/". After this you can use your apt-get over the p2p. Do not forget to update:

sudo apt-get update

First indexing will be quite slow.