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[Quick Tip] Speed Up Installing (Downloading) Snap App in Ubuntu

Last updated: November 26, 2019

This simple tutorial shows how to speed up the downloading process of snap application package by associating IP address with the snapcraft server in Ubuntu.

Snap is a containerized package format, that makes many great applications (e.g., Spotify, Skype, the latest Blender, and more) easy to install in Ubuntu 18.04 and higher.

However snap is LARGE in file size. Due to slow international network speed, downloading a snap in 20MB even take more than half an hour in my case.

1.) Open terminal either via Ctrl+Alt+T keyboard shortcut or by searching for ‘terminal’ from application menu. When terminal opens, run command:

dig fastly.cdn.snapcraft.io

In the terminal output, copy the IP address under ‘ANSWER SECTION’:

2.) Then run commands to edit the hosts file:

sudo gedit /etc/hosts

Type user password (no asterisk) when it prompts and hit Enter.

When the files opens in gedit text editor, paste following line:

151.101.42.217 fastly.cdn.snapcraft.io

Replace the IP address with which you got in step 1, and finally save the file.

That’s it. Enjoy!

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    8 responses to [Quick Tip] Speed Up Installing (Downloading) Snap App in Ubuntu

    1. Me December 31, 2019 at 3:37 am

      This should be published on theonion

    2. Andrew Burns January 11, 2020 at 9:01 pm

      worked like a charm Ubunto 19.1 January 10 2019

    3. Bronzer January 18, 2020 at 9:58 am

      Works beautifully! Totally recommend it!

    4. Waweru February 29, 2020 at 6:19 pm

      Thanks for this!

    5. Maxim April 27, 2020 at 11:34 am

      OMG, it works. Thanks, dude!
      Ubuntu 20.04
      27.04.2020

    6. shenlong May 23, 2020 at 5:19 am

      not showing any answer !!

      • Miguel July 3, 2020 at 5:39 pm

        Same case, no “Answer Section”

        dig fastly.cdn.snapcraft.io

        ; <> DiG 9.16.1-Ubuntu <> fastly.cdn.snapcraft.io
        ;; global options: +cmd
        ;; Got answer:
        ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 39782
        ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

        ;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
        ; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 65494
        ;; QUESTION SECTION:
        ;fastly.cdn.snapcraft.io. IN A

        ;; Query time: 747 msec
        ;; SERVER: 127.0.0.53#53(127.0.0.53)
        ;; WHEN: Fri Jul 03 12:36:37 -05 2020
        ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 52

    7. Jack August 1, 2020 at 2:56 pm

      no answer section showed