When my web browser informs me that my version of Flash is outdated, I update with the command
$ sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer
Which works fine except the download is very slow (e.g., right now it's about 40 KiB/s). Googling the zipped flash file shows many possible sources for it, some of which must be faster for me than the one Canonical is using.
My question: is there a way to pass a parameter to the apt
command above to download the file from a different source? I would like to continue to use the package manager to update Flash, but I want it to go faster than the 5-10 minutes it currently takes.
Edit: This question asks about changing the entire apt repository to download faster. I can download any other package at my university's lightning speed (MiB/s?; I don't even notice), except for this one Flash package. I would like to know more about passing specific parameters into apt
for single uses instead of changing my entire software source list.