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Renzokuken Red Dragon

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Registered: 2008-04-21

Posts: 2

Fastest mirrors for pacman?

Hey guys/girls

I've freshly installed Arch for the first time. I'm following the beginner's guide through, and I've reached the stage where I need to add mirrors to pacman. For some reason my file was empty, but I added a mirror from http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mirrors and it works nonetheless.

Anyway, I ran pacman -Syu as recommended, but it's running really slowly (18kb/s or so) from the first UK mirror. I know that foreign mirrors can be potentially faster than this, as my internet speed isn't this bad!

How can I find the fastest possible mirrors without trying them all one by one? I looked in google, but found nothing useful.

Thanks in advance for any comments =]

Last edited by Renzokuken Red Dragon (2008-04-21 18:56:40)

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cawill

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From: United Kingdom

Registered: 2007-12-12

Posts: 63

Re: Fastest mirrors for pacman?

http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.archlinux.org/
That's the mirror you use right?
It is fine for me, I get speeds around 400 - 500 kb/s

ninian

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From: United Kingdom

Registered: 2008-02-24

Posts: 726

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Re: Fastest mirrors for pacman?

You'll want to run the command:

rankmirrors -v /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

to determine the fastest mirror. From help, it

ranks pacman mirrors by their connection and opening speed.

Misfit138

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From: USA

Registered: 2006-11-27

Posts: 4,189

Re: Fastest mirrors for pacman?

FYI, rankmirrors requires python.
pacman -Sy python

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Renzokuken Red Dragon

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Registered: 2008-04-21

Posts: 2

Re: Fastest mirrors for pacman?

Thanks guys, when my system finishes updating I'll be certain to try the steps listed above =]

Thought presumably, given that my mirrorlist file was empty to begin with, I'd need to add all of the mirrors first. I'll report back with how things turn out.

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