How to choose proper servers?

khalderon · 2008-01-17 15:47:14

In the installation manual there is an important step just before updating the system. Certain mirrors must be specified according to rankmirrors' output. But I get:

-bash: /usr/bin/python bad interpreter: no such file or directory

This should mean rankmirrors is a python script, but there is no python installed on Arch by default and there is no way of running the script. Before searching for Python, I should update my system. But how do I do that? I thought, the first line below [core, etc...] is the Server=... line.

jacko · 2008-01-17 16:36:49

where are u located? in the sates or international?

btw, yes, the wiki expects python installed and apparently its not. The wiki is wrong and needs updating to reflect that it doesn't work as suggested. I too had this problem, so instead I just used ftp.archlinux.org for the first time install and then figured out a good mirror once I had python installed.

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khalderon · 2008-01-17 17:13:18

In Bulgaria

khalderon · 2008-01-18 06:16:24

I only removed the servers, that are not in Europe. Then I had to run pacman -Syu twice. The updates estimated ~115 MB @ 20K/s. It took me more than 2 hours to download them! Installation went very fast. After reboot I noticed the version is no more Don't panic, but Core dump or something?

Dheart · 2008-01-18 07:47:30

Core dump is the rolling release so don't worry - it should be like that.
For the mirrors... I use the switzerland's in first place, than some german, some british and the greek.
I think you should install python and then run rankmirrors.

khalderon · 2008-01-19 18:06:42

I did uncomment these servers I feel are too far away via #'s in the /etc/pacman.d/core (extra, community). What was my amazament when running pacman -Syu began looking at the old severs again! Why is that?

Zer0 · 2008-01-19 20:24:04

As of pacman 3.1.0 the all files in /etc/pacman.d/ except mirrorlist are depreciated. Check to make sure your /etc/pacman.conf contains links directed to this new mirrorlist file instead of the old ones like...

Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

If they are then be sure to edit the mirrorlist file instead of the others..

khalderon · 2008-01-20 06:46:04

Oh, now that is new. I wonder why it is not in the wiki yet.
I wouldn't install Python juct because of a script. I'd better choose geographically close to me servers.

jacko · 2008-01-20 08:00:49

Oh, now that is new. I wonder why it is not in the wiki yet.

because as it was already suggested, pacman 3.1 was just released with this new feature. The wiki is like anything else on this site, rolling release, so until someone updates it with the new features in pacman 3.1 it will remain wrong.

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman#Repositories

Last edited by jacko (2008-01-20 08:14:42)

Zer0 · 2008-01-20 19:29:41

It's mentioned in the output when updating to pacman 3.1 (check pacman.log). The only issue with this is new installs most likely wont see this because when they do a system wide update there's a lot of overlooked output. That issue will be solved with the next ISO release though because pacman 3.1 will be included.

Last edited by Zer0 (2008-01-20 19:30:19)

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How to choose proper servers?

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