presto | Techerator https://techerator.com Techerator is an excellent source of tips, guides, and reviews about software, web apps, technology, mobile phones, and computers. Thu, 15 Oct 2009 04:23:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 7158109 Decrease Fedora Update Time With yum-presto https://techerator.com/2009/09/decrease-fedora-update-time-with-yum-presto/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=decrease-fedora-update-time-with-yum-presto https://techerator.com/2009/09/decrease-fedora-update-time-with-yum-presto/#comments Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:01:47 +0000 http://44.229.110.106/?p=3778 Installing updates on any operating system can be a time consuming process.  Part of the philosophy of a free and open source operating system is the commitment to keeping your system updated with the latest security patches and feature updates.  With Fedora systems, I often see 50-100 MB worth of updates per week.  Even on […]

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]]> fedora-logoInstalling updates on any operating system can be a time consuming process.  Part of the philosophy of a free and open source operating system is the commitment to keeping your system updated with the latest security patches and feature updates.  With Fedora systems, I often see 50-100 MB worth of updates per week.  Even on a broadband connection, downloading updates can still take time.

To help decrease the size of update download, you can install the Presto plug-in for yum.  With the Presto plug-in, yum now has the ability to download only the changes in the packages, called deltarpms, and not the complete package.  Using yum-presto can reduce the total download size anywhere from 60 to 80 %.

Installation

Installing the Presto plug-in for yum is done with the line below.

sudo yum install yum-presto

After the plug-in installs, update your system with

sudo yum update

I have had a very good experience with yum-presto.  Recently I performed a new installation of Fedora on a system and without the Presto plug-in, I would have had to download around 400+ MB of updates.  With Presto, I was able to download all updates in only 112 MB.

Have you heard of the Presto plug-in for yum?  What other yum plug-ins have you used?  Let us know in the comments below.

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