2

I am using Ubuntu 12.04. It seems that it take lot of time for apt-get update. I can see that it spend lot of time for checking language translations file. How to disable translations checking while apt-get update?

I want only English. How to safely remove other language translations?

Improve this question
2
  • You can change the download server in the Software center -> Software Sources -> Download from. Select "other" and then "Select Best Server". This might help a bit.
    – lumbric
    May 6, 2012 at 7:22
  • This question may have been addressed here: How can I remove the Translation entries in apt? and may be considered a duplicate.
    – user25656
    May 7, 2012 at 7:28

1 Answer 1

Reset to default
0

Take a look at the answers to this question:
How can I get apt to use a mirror close to me, or choose a faster mirror?

I use the recommendation from an answer to that question to add the two lines below to the top of /etc/apt/sources.list. This is supposed to encourage the update process to automatically pick a download mirror with better performance. I think it helps.

deb mirror://mirrors.ubuntu.com/mirrors.txt precise main restricted universe multiverse
deb mirror://mirrors.ubuntu.com/mirrors.txt precise-updates main restricted universe multiverse
  • Note: The lines above are meant to used with the /etc/apt/sources.list for 12.04 (Precise Pangolin). For earlier releases replace precise with the release's corresponding codename.

    Lucid (10.04), Maverick (10.10), Natty (11.04), Oneiric (11.10)
Improve this answer

Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged .