On Fri, 02 Feb 2007 01:02:55 -0500, Anthony Bryan wrote: > I just wanted to invite people to try out downloading Fedora ISOs with > Metalink. > It's an XML format for listing mirrors and checksums along with other > information. openSUSE, OpenOffice.org, Arch Linux, and other distributions use > it. > > It usually results in much faster and more reliable downloads. > > aria2 is in Extras and is a great command line client for segmented downloads > and BitTorrent, along with Metalink. There are also other GUI clients on Mac, > Unix, and Windows. > > You can find .metalinks for most Fedora ISOs at > http://download.packages.ro/metalink/fedora/ > > For more info, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metalink > > I'd be interested in any comments people have. OK, I read most of the fedora parts, started to download aria2, and suddenly thought to try yum install aria2 instead. It worked -- you got it and installed it -- but now I have an old old Very Dumb Question : how do I invoke it?? It doesn't seem to have added a launcher to the main menu under internet, where I'd expected to find it ...
Yes, 'yum install aria2' will work. aria2 is a command line app, and for some reason the command to run it is aria2c, so you'd use: aria2c URL or aria2c http://download.packages.ro/metalink/fedora/FC-6-i386-DVD_iso.metalink (if you wanted that ISO). -- (( Anthony Bryan )) Metalink [ http://www.metalinker.org ]
