take long time installing and updating packages by wget on arch linux

Question

I don't know why, when im downloding or installing or updating package, download speed is very slow? and take very long time!!!!

when im working in windows my download speed is 1M but in arch is changable ,is between 50k to 100k? im using wget in pacman.conf

I use reflector but it had nothing changed and my package download speed is to slow. can i create list from pacman update package and then download those from windows and again install all packages in Arch?

Answer 1

1. Check out your network settings,ip dns route... sometimes this will solve download speed problem.

2. Find the fastest mirror.

   $ cd /etc/pacman.d/     
   $ cp mirrorlist mirrorlist.bak    
   $ rankmirrors -n 6 mirrorlist.bak > mirrorlist
   

3. Check mirrors status https://www.archlinux.org/mirrors/status/.

You can see more from Archwiki Mirrors.

Hope this helps.

Answer 2

Please consider reading the documentation about pacman performance here.

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You can manually force pacman to refresh the package lists (mirror list) with:

pacman -Syyu

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To answer your question about downloading out of arch, the first part of the following will be with laverna which is a software I maintain on AUR, and the second part will be with a package in official repository.

AUR

Download

We have 2 solutions:

1. Use git
2. Download snapshot

Using Git

Clone in the current folder the repository with

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/laverna/ .

Using Snapshot

Just wget the snapshot or download directly with the browser.

wget https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/snapshot/laverna.tar.gz

Official Repositories

You can easily get a download link the package web page. For example with sqlite-doc the web page link is here and the download link (from a mirror) is here.

Back to Arch

Then back to arch, we have to build and install packages. To do so we navigate to the folder where you cloned/downloaded the package (cf. cd) then execute the following to build.

(Only if packageName-version.pkg.tar.xz doesn't exist)

makepkg

Finally, after makepkg you obtain a file in the current directory which is in our AUR example laverna-0.7.4-RC1-linux-x64.pkg.tar.xz.

To install the packageName-version.pkg.tar.xz file we just have to execute the following and answer the questions as usually.

sudo pacman -U laverna-0.7.4-RC1-linux-x64.pkg.tar.xz