Fedora 9: Automatically Select Fastest Yum Repo Source

Ever experience a slow connection when doing yum installation? Heard the fuzz of slow yum updates and turtle-speed rpm queries?

Worry not, here's a quick sky post on how to make yum faster than its first-run speed.

One way to make yum to yum faster is to automatically select the nearest and available yum repo mirror list and sort them according to their yum rpm query speed. When installed, this yum addon actually sorts your repo mirror list based on your current geo IP address location and internet download speed from those yum repo lists.

Considering that you have successfully installed livna, read on.

Here's a quick post on how to make your yum operates and yum faster.

Fedora 9: Yum-FastestMirror Installation

Simply, install yum-fastestmirror using yum as shown

# yum -y install yum-fastestmirror

Success, enjoy new Fedora 9 rpm packages using yum add on.

Head on to Yum-fastestmirror site.

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