select mirror

[Owen Townend]

On 09/05/2008, Serge van Ginderachter <serge at vanginderachter.be> wrote:
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>  Just read this post:
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>  http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-to-select-fastest-mirror-in-ubuntu.html
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>  I was wondering what the way of work would be to do this by commandline?
>  For me, a test of 'fastest' mirror isn't even really necessary, I would be satisfied to just have a list of local (National) mirrors to select from, e.g. depending on which ISP I am.
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>         Serge

Hey,
  The app /usr/bin/software-properties-gtk seems to do a simple ping
test of a list of mirrors. You can find a list of mirrors[1] and
script a simple, similar test.

cheers,
Owen.

[1] https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archivemirrors