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RichAustin

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From: Wakefield, Yorkshire, England

Registered: 2011-07-27

Posts: 186

[SOLVED] Update Mirror List

Hi all

I was reading a post earlier and it mentioned updating the mirror list at http://www.archlinux.org/mirrorlist/. I generated the list okay, but can someone enlighten me as to what to do with it please?

Thanks

Rich

Last edited by RichAustin (2011-08-12 18:41:52)

Inxsible

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From: Chicago

Registered: 2008-06-09

Posts: 9,183

Re: [SOLVED] Update Mirror List

why, pick the nearest active mirror and uncomment that in your /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist file, of course.

Then

pacman -Syyu

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karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: [SOLVED] Update Mirror List

Use it as your mirrorlist in pacman.conf; either remove

Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

and put the new mirrorlist in its place or just point pacman to the new mirrorlist e.g.

Include = /etc/pacman.d/new_mirrorlist

MoonSwan

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From: Great White North

Registered: 2008-01-23

Posts: 881

Re: [SOLVED] Update Mirror List

You could eat it...

Seriously, copy that newly generated list to either a temp text file or directly into the /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist file itself.  This also assumes you'll delete the current contents of the mirrorlist file before pasting your new list into it.

After that, just do your pacman -Syu to get the new packages.

RichAustin

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From: Wakefield, Yorkshire, England

Registered: 2011-07-27

Posts: 186

Re: [SOLVED] Update Mirror List

Thanks for the help. I thought it must be pretty simple to do but thought it was best to make sure.

Rich