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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.

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    I'm not sure that there is an easy solution, but unless it came from a trusted source (APT gets it from the trusted Adobe part of the Canonical partner repository) I definitely wouldn't trust it, most of the zipped up versions you'll find on sites which are not official ones are likely to be Trojans and you'll probably just end up with spyware or a ransomware infection... I don't think that APT will be able to deal with the compressed file types anyway, it requires deb files... Also if you do install it from somewhere other than the standard repo it won't be able to receive updates.
    – user364819
    Apr 11, 2016 at 15:16
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    Use a different mirror askubuntu.com/questions/37753/…
    – Panther
    Apr 11, 2016 at 15:22
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    Adobe has removed support for Linux version of flash long ago. It is strongly suggested that you switch either to pepper flash in Google Chrome or use HTML 5 for viewing flash content Apr 11, 2016 at 15:23
  • @Serg, I'm using Firefox, not Chrom[e/ium]. Can you tell me how to switch/update Flash per your suggestion? Apr 11, 2016 at 16:24
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    @bodhi.zazen: Switching mirror wouldn't make much of a difference, since most of the downloaded data, the adobe-flashplugin tar archive, is grabbed from Canonical Partner, which is not mirrored. Apr 11, 2016 at 17:29

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