Here is a very useful shell script that addresses a issue I have with apt, it only downloads one package at a time.
Well while apt-fast will not make it do simultaneous downloads it will speed it up, It basically makes apt-get use axel instead of wget. On my Desktop it increases my apt-get downloads to insanely fast speeds, on the n900 the speed boost is there but the Wifi power-save creates a bottleneck.
Usage is simple put the apt-fast.sh (remove the .txt from the end) file some where, install axel (apt-get install axel), and then make all your apt calls to it instead.(as root)
sh apt-fast.sh update
sh apt-fast.sh install
sh apt-fast.sh clean
I would really like to package this up and put it in the repos, but Ive never packaged a deb file, if anyone wants to point me in the right direction.
