#Black arch mirror how to#
How to find the fastest Arch Linux mirrors Therefore the more lines you uncomment, the less chances that one day you will not be able to update due to mirrors unavailability. If this fails or the speed is too slow, then it moves on to the next and so on until the list ends. When upgrading, pacman tries to download package information and packages from the first server in the list. Choose based on your country and your preferences. Remove the hash sign from any line (or any number of lines) beginning with “#Server”. If we ran pacman, it would give error messages. In the GUI:Īs you can see, all lines are commented out. Now we need to open and edit the /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist file. Sudo mv /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.pacnew /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist Sudo mv /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.old Save the old list of mirrors as a backup: We start by deleting the old backup (if there is one, if not, then skip this step): Since the new list of mirrors is always installed as mirrorlist.pacnew, it would be correct not to link to this file (the file will be overwritten with the next update), but to rename this file.
And, secondly, all entries in it are commented out. First, it is not referenced in the pacman config file. This seeming simplicity has a catch – the new mirror list is not used by default. With this update, an entry appears that the new list has been installed as mirrorlist.pacnew. The Arch Linux mirror list is updated as a regular package. How to update pacman mirror list on Arch Linux The complete list of mirrors is located in the /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist file, by default all entries are commented out, that is, inactive.
#Black arch mirror install#
It is up to the user to decide which mirror or list of mirrors will be used to install and update software packages.Īrch Linux distributions do not provide by default tools to automatically measure the speed and quality of mirrors. It is up to the user to choose the mirror of the package repositories on Arch Linux.
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