How to find Ubuntu repository mirrors
You can use find-ubuntu-mirrors to find alternative repository mirrors for Ubuntu. It will check mirror lists and test the mirrors to see if they’re working or not.
When it finds mirrors that are compatible with your preferences, it will output the mirrors in Apt’s sources.list format.
The script also allows you to find Ubuntu mirrors for different architectures like:
- ARM (
armhf&aarch64) - RISC-V (
riscv64) - PPC (
ppc64el) - IBM Z (
s390x)
Click here to view the source code for find-mirrors.sh.
Usage
$ export URL="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/alexdelorenzo/find-ubuntu-mirrors/master/find-mirrors.sh"
$ curl -Ls "$URL" | bash
Passing options
The script takes the following positional arguments or environment variables:
| Position | Variable name | Description | Default value |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $ARCH |
Architecture that the mirrors support | amd64 |
| 2 | $DISTRO |
Version of Ubuntu the mirrors support | focal |
| 3 | $REPOSITORY |
The apt repository |
main |
| 4 | $PROTOCOL |
The apt repository protocol |
http |
| 5 | $JOBS |
Number of concurrent network connections | 4 |
Here’s the syntax:
$ curl -Ls "$URL" | bash -s $ARCH $DISTRO $REPOSITORY $PROTOCOL $JOBS
If you want to find alternatives for aarch64 architectures while checking 6 repositories concurrently, you can do this:
$ curl -Ls "$URL" | bash -s aarch64 focal main http 6
You can also use environment variables instead:
$ export ARCH=aarch64 DISTRO=focal JOBS=6
$ curl -Ls "$URL" | bash
Output
The script will output the mirrors it finds in Apt’s sources.list format:
$ curl -Ls "$URL" | bash
deb http://mirror.kumi.systems/ubuntu-ports/ focal main
deb-src http://mirror.kumi.systems/ubuntu-ports/ focal main
deb http://mirrors.portafixe.com/ubuntu/archive/ focal main
deb-src http://mirrors.portafixe.com/ubuntu/archive/ focal main
...
Requirements
- Bash
- GNU
parallel htmlq- HTTPie
Script
You can check out find-ubuntu-mirrors on GitHub here.
