Fedora ISO distribution with Metalink

[Anthony Bryan]

> On Fri, 02 Feb 2007 01:02:55 -0500, Anthony Bryan wrote:
>
> > I just wanted to invite people to try out downloading Fedora ISOs with
> > Metalink.
> > It's an XML format for listing mirrors and checksums along with other
> > information. openSUSE, OpenOffice.org, Arch Linux, and other distributions use
> > it.
> >
> > It usually results in much faster and more reliable downloads.
> >
> > aria2 is in Extras and is a great command line client for segmented downloads
> > and BitTorrent, along with Metalink. There are also other GUI clients on Mac,
> > Unix, and Windows.
> >
> > You can find .metalinks for most Fedora ISOs at
> > http://download.packages.ro/metalink/fedora/
> >
> > For more info, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metalink
> >
> > I'd be interested in any comments people have.
>
> OK, I read most of the fedora parts, started to download aria2, and
> suddenly thought to try yum install aria2 instead. It worked -- you got it
> and installed it -- but now I have an old old Very Dumb Question : how do
> I invoke it?? It doesn't seem to have added a launcher to the main menu
> under internet, where I'd expected to find it ...

Yes, 'yum install aria2' will work. aria2 is a command line app, and
for some reason the command to run it is aria2c, so you'd use:

aria2c URL
or
aria2c http://download.packages.ro/metalink/fedora/FC-6-i386-DVD_iso.metalink
(if you wanted that ISO).

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