Ubuntu Archive Mirror reporting tool for selection of fast apt mirrors.
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Tests latency to mirrors in mirrors.txt.
- 3 requests are sent to each mirror, minumum round trip time being used for rank.
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Reports latency, status, and bandwidth capacity of the fastest mirrors in a ranked list.
- Minimum round trip times determine rank.
- Status and bandwidth are scraped from launchpad.
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Generates
sources.listfile using new mirror.- Mirror can be chosen from a list or selected automatically using the top ranked mirror (default).
/etc/apt/sources.listis searched to generatesources.listfile using new mirror.
Python HTML parser, BeautifulSoup
Python2
sudo apt-get install python-bs4
Python3
sudo apt-get install python3-bs4
$ ./apt-select.py --help
usage: apt-select.py [-h] [-t NUMBER] [-m STATUS | -p] [-c | -l]
Find the fastest Ubuntu apt mirrors.
Generate new sources.list file.
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-t NUMBER, --top-number NUMBER
specify number of mirrors to return
default: 1
-m STATUS, --min-status STATUS
return mirrors with minimum status
choices:
up-to-date
one-day-behind
two-days-behind
one-week-behind
unknown
default: up-to-date
-p, --ping-only rank mirror(s) by latency only, disregard status(es)
cannot be used with -m/--min-status
-c, --choose choose mirror from a list
requires -t/--top-num NUMBER where NUMBER > 1
-l, --list print list of mirrors only, don't generate file
cannot be used with -c/--choose
Choose from the top 3 mirrors, including those last updated a week ago:
./apt-select.py -c -t 3 -m one-week-behind
Find the top 10 mirrors, output latency info only, and don't generate new config file:
./apt-select.py -t 10 -p -l
After new sources.list is generated in current working directory, backup and replace to update apt:
sudo mv /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.backup && \
sudo mv sources.list /etc/apt/
Supported URI Types
Currently, http and ftp are supported.
/etc/apt/sources.list should contain sources in the following format:
[deb|deb-src] [http|ftp]://mirror.example.com/path [component1] [component2] [...]