The disadvantage is that sometimes really bad mirrors might be choosen (e.g.
Currently, users are only presented with the option to use a limited number of the mirrors of the Ubuntu archive that are available on the Internet. The feedback will consist of reporting failures and the relative speed of the tested mirrors. It will take just a few seconds. I have tested the following tools and they are working just fine in my Ubuntu 20.04 LTS desktop.Make sure you have installed Pip and run the following command to install apt-select:Now run the following command to find top apt mirror for a given country:The above command returns only one top mirror from India and generate a new sources.list and save it in the current directory.If no country code is provided, the US mirrors will be fetched by default.You can also generate sources.list from top N mirrors using -t flag.
Firstly the manual selection based on the current launchpad mirror list, then automatic selection, then failure reporting, then speed reporting. For a version that can report feedback back to launchpad we need: Given the scope of the automatic mirror selection it should probably be implemented in steps. Designed and Developed by This website uses cookies to improve your experience. Testdata download has the disadvantage of wasting bandwidth so we should look into optimzing this as far as possible.
when insufficient data for a AS is available). Providing users with a tool to find mirrors and determine their speed based on a user's network access might allow for faster package downloads. We'll assume you're ok with this, but you can opt-out if you wish. This page was generated at Tue, 10 Jul 2018 00:06:27 +0200 and is a parsed version of https:/ It will also submit the IP adress so that we know what autonomous zone the request came from.
Official Ubuntu mirrors. The mirrors that are currently presented to a user may not be the fastest mirror available. One problem we have is that test-data may get cached (proxy/transparent proxy) and that makes our testdata bad. An implementation of the spec has already been started by a member of the community.
Stack Exchange Network. That is simply a mirror replication problem and shouldn't affect the authentication or signing of packages in the repositories. For example, the following command will return top 3 mirrors, including those last updated a week ago:To list top 3 mirrors by latency, excluding the statuses, use -p flag:This command allows you to choose one mirror from top 3 US mirrors and generates the sources.list.Choose any one mirror from the list by entering the appropriate number:The following command returns the top 3 mirrors, but won't generate the sources.list file:To find 5 mirrors, but don't want to generate sources.list and exclude statuses, do:After generating the sources.list file as per your requirement, just replace the original one (/etc/apt/sources.list) with the new one.Another notable feature of Apt-smart is it will automatically switch to any other different mirrors when the current mirror is being updated.
The user will be asked if he preferes automatic mirror selection (that involves some feedback reporting back to us) or manual selection which means to select the mirror manually based on the launchpad rss feed.
This is why it is must to choose a best and also a nearest mirror for your Ubuntu system as described in the subsequent section.Now let us find out the best APT archive mirror. Stack Exchange Network. We want to test three mirrors, the first two based on what we think is the fastest and the third one random. The first important thing to do after installing a fresh Ubuntu OS is to choose the best and fastest APT archive mirror. The mirrors may not always be the closest to your location but offers a best possible download rate and update status.If your system is connected to Internet at the time of installation, the installer will automatically select a nearest mirror depending on your location and ISP. Alternative downloads. Wubi is an officially supported Ubuntu installer for Windows users that can bring you to the Linux world with a single click. I love to read, write and explore topics on Linux, Unix and all other technology related stuff.Subscribe our Newsletter for new posts. All Rights Reserved. 清华大学开源软件镜像站，致力于为国内和校内用户提供高质量的开源软件镜像、Linux镜像源服务，帮助用户更方便地获取开源软件。本镜像站由清华大学TUNA团队负责维护。 Stack Exchange network consists of 177 Q&A communities including Stack Overflow, the largest, most trusted online community for developers to learn, share their knowledge, and build their careers.. Visit Stack Exchange – dragon788 Apr 27 '18 at 1:24 The new mirrors can be selected either automatically or manually by the user. The other rationale is that we want to get user feedback in case of network problems automatically (preferably with additional information like a traceroute dump). All Rights Reserved. * By using this form you agree with the storage and handling of your data by this website. Even though I live in India, it suggested me best mirrors from USA, UK and Italy countries. In the future we will extend this to provide feedback for us to report back problems with mirrors so that launchpad can dynamically update the mirror list. We can do this in GUI way and CLI way.If you are on Ubuntu desktop, open "Software & updates" window:Under the Ubuntu Software tab, choose "Other" in "Download from" drop-down box and then choose "Select Best Server" option.A series of tests will be performed to find a mirror that gives you best download speed for your location. Now your sources.list is automatically updated with best and fastest Ubuntu repository mirror URLs.This is my preferred way to find a best Apt mirror for my Ubuntu desktop. Once we have a working and well tested mirror method we can add code to the software-properties utility to make switching to automatic mirror selection easy. Good thing is Apt-smart will backup the current sources.list before updating it with new mirrors.Make sure you have installed Pip and run the following commands one by one to install Apt-smart:To list the current main mirror configured in the /etc/apt/sources.list file and display its details in the standard output, run:To discover available mirrors, rank them and choose a best one from the list and display it in the standard output, run:To list all available ranked mirrors in the terminal, run:Once you found the best APT mirror, you can update your /etc/apt/sources.list to use the given mirror like below:Instead of manually finding and updating the best mirror in Ubuntu, you can let Apt-smart to choose a best Apt mirror and automatically update the sources.list with new one like below:I am Senthil Kumar, more commonly known as SK to my friends, from India.