tool used to download packages?

[Derek Broughton]

Andy Harrison wrote:

> On 2/6/07, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
>> The question would be why would you need to change it?
> 
> The reason is that the tool does not work properly.

Odd, works great for me.

> I regularly get 
> timeout errors from this tool, definitely more than 50% of the time.
> Yet if I take the url from the error message regarding which package
> it timed out on and simply paste that url right to the commandline
> with wget, it downloads immediately at my usual blazing speed without
> so much as a hiccup.

Okay, then you need to look at your /etc/apt/sources.list.  What are the URI
specifications?

Interestingly, man:sources.list says "The currently recognized URI types are
cdrom, file, http, and ftp" but then describes "copy" & "rsh/ssh" as well. 
Even if the others still work, I don't expect any of the methods to improve
upon http. ftp, in particular, I've found routinely runs into problems with
limited numbers of available connections.
-- 
derek