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Stalker72

Member

Registered: 2009-02-05

Posts: 15

Re: "Downloading packages" during installation ... extremely slow!

I've been running Ubuntu and Kubuntu for months, but I wanted to try something new. I'm going to try Fedora.

Stalker72

oni5115

Member

Registered: 2009-01-10

Posts: 38

Re: "Downloading packages" during installation ... extremely slow!

I think you need python installed to use rankmirrors:

cd /etc/pacman.d
cp mirrorlist mirrorlist.backup
rankmirrors -n 6 mirrorlist.backup > mirrorlist

I decided to try that myself, just to make updates as fast as possible.  It didn't work at first, since I tried to use sudo as I normally do.  Even with sudo it said mirrorlist permission denied.  So I logged into the shell as root, and then it worked.

drewbie

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From: England

Registered: 2006-02-12

Posts: 12

Re: "Downloading packages" during installation ... extremely slow!

Instead of trying to mess around with keyboard configs, why not just run "rankmirrors -n 1 /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist" to get the fastest mirror, then find that in the mirrorlist file and either comment out the rest or move it to the top?