Mirrors
This page is a guide to selecting and configuring your mirrors, and a listing of current available mirrors.
Contents
- 1 Enabling a specific mirror
- 2 Mirror status
- 3 Sorting mirrors
- 4 Official mirrors
-
5 Unofficial mirrors
- 5.1 Global
- 5.2 Tor Network
- 5.3 Austria
- 5.4 Belarus
- 5.5 Bulgaria
- 5.6 China
- 5.7 France
- 5.8 Germany
- 5.9 Hong Kong
- 5.10 India
- 5.11 Indonesia
- 5.12 Iran
- 5.13 Italy
- 5.14 Japan
- 5.15 Kazakhstan
- 5.16 Malaysia
- 5.17 New Zealand
- 5.18 Poland
- 5.19 Russia
- 5.20 Singapore
- 5.21 South Africa
- 5.22 South Korea
- 5.23 United States
- 5.24 Viet Nam
- 6 See also
Enabling a specific mirror
To enable mirrors, edit /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
and locate your geographic region. Uncomment mirrors you would like to use.
Example:
# Any # Server = ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch Server = http://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
See #Mirror status and #List by speed for tools that help choosing mirrors.
It is also possible to specify mirrors in /etc/pacman.conf
. For the [core] repository, the default setup is:
[core] Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
To use the HostEurope mirror as a default mirror, add it before the Include
line:
[core] Server = ftp://ftp.hosteurope.de/mirror/ftp.archlinux.org/core/os/$arch Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
pacman will now try to connect to this mirror first. Proceed to do the same for [testing], [extra], and [community], if applicable.
Force pacman to refresh the package lists
After creating/editing /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
, (manually or by using rankmirrors
) issue the following command:
# pacman -Syyu
Mirror status
Check the status of the Arch mirrors and how updated they are by visiting https://www.archlinux.org/mirrors/status/.
You can generate an up to date mirrorlist here, automate the process with a script, or install Reflector, a utility that generates a mirrorlist using Mirrorcheck's list; you can also manually check how up-to-date a mirror is by:
- picking a server and browsing to "extra/os/";
- accessing https://www.archlinux.org/ in another browser tab or window; and
- comparing the last-modified date of the
i686
directory on the mirror to the [extra] date on the homepage, in the Package Repositories box to the right.
Sorting mirrors
When downloading packages pacman uses the mirrors in the order they are in /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
. If not using reflector, which has the ability to sort mirrors by both how updated they are and their speed, follow this demonstration of manual mirror sorting.
List by speed
Take full advantage of using the fastest local mirror, which can be determined via the included Bash script, /usr/bin/rankmirrors
.
Back up the existing /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
:
# cp /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.backup
Edit /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.backup
and uncomment mirrors for testing with rankmirrors
.
Optionally run the following sed
line to uncomment every mirror:
# sed -i 's/^#Server/Server/' /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.backup
Finally, rank the mirrors. Operand -n 6
means only output the 6 fastest mirrors:
# rankmirrors -n 6 /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.backup > /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
Run rankmirrors -h
for a list of all the available options.
For the new rankmirrors
1.5+ simply run
# rankmirrors -g
Combined listing by speed and status
It is not a good idea to just use the fastest mirrors, since the fastest mirrors might be out of date. The preferred way would be to use #List by speed, then sorting those 6 fastest mirrors by their #Mirror status.
Simply visit either one or both #Mirror status links and sort them by the ones that are more up to date. Move the more up to date mirrors to the top of /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
and if the mirrors are way out of date simply do not use those; repeat the process leaving out the outdated mirrors. So this ends up with a total of 6 mirrors that are sorted by speed and status, leaving out outdated mirrors.
When having mirror issues the above should be repeated. Or repeat once in a while even if not having mirror problems, to keep /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
up to date.
Script to download from Mirrorlist Generator
The Pacman Mirrorlist Generator ranks mirrors based on geography, availability, and tiering. A script is available that can backup the previous mirrorlist then install a Mirrorlist Generator version. To install it use the AUR package armrr-gitAUR or download it with curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Gen2ly/armrr/master/armrr
. Run armrr [*country code]
or just armrr
for a country code prompt. Type armrr -h,--help
for more details.
Using Reflector
Alternatively, you can use Reflector to automatically retrieve the latest mirrorlist from the MirrorStatus page, filter the most up-to-date mirrors, sort them by speed and overwrite the file /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
.
Choosing a local mirror
The simple way is to edit the mirrorlist file by placing a local mirror at the top of the list. pacman will then use this mirror for preference.
Alternatively /etc/pacman.conf
can be edited by placing a local mirror before the line sourcing the mirrorlist file, i.e. where it says "add your preferred servers here". It is safer if you use the same server for each repository.
List mirrors only for a specific country
Can be useful to automate update of the mirror list only for a specific countries instead of making a speed test each time. Assumed that mirrorlist.pacnew
exist, the file creates after installation of the pacman-mirrorlist update.
Cnt="China"; awk -v GG=$Cnt '{if(match($0,GG) != "0")AA="1";if(AA == "1"){if( length($2) != "0" )print substr($0,2) ;else AA="0"} }' \ /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.pacnew
Official mirrors
The official Arch Linux mirror list is available from the pacman-mirrorlist package. To get an even more up-to-date list of mirrors, use the Pacman Mirror List Generator page on the main site.
In the unlikely scenario that you are without any configured mirrors and pacman-mirrorlist
is not installed, run the following command:
# wget -O /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist https://www.archlinux.org/mirrorlist/all/
Be sure to uncomment a preferred mirror as described above, then:
# pacman -Syu pacman-mirrorlist
If you want your mirror to be added to the official list, file a feature request. In the meantime, add it to the #Unofficial mirrors list at the end of this page.
If you get an error stating that the $arch
variable is used but not defined, add the following to your /etc/pacman.conf
:
Architecture = x86_64
IPv6-ready mirrors
The pacman mirror list generator can also be used to find a list of current IPv6 mirrors.
Unofficial mirrors
These mirrors are not listed in /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
.
Global
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/archlinux/files/ - ISO files only; Does not have any releases since 2006. Use it only if for getting older ISOs.
Tor Network
These run as Tor hidden services and require a Tor client as well as a properly setup pacman to use.
- http://cz2jqg7pj2hqanw7.onion/archlinux
- ftp://mirror:mirror@cz2jqg7pj2hqanw7.onion/archlinux
- http://rstpevyo7zx47bld.onion/archlinux
Austria
- http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/archlinux/ - Vienna University of Technology
- ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/archlinux/
Belarus
Bulgaria
China
Telecom
- http://mirror.bit.edu.cn/archlinux/ - Beijing Institute of Technology
- http://mirror.bjtu.edu.cn/archlinux/ - Beijing Jiaotong University
- rsync://mirror.bjtu.edu.cn/archlinux/
- http://mirrors.aliyun.com/archlinux/ - Alibaba
Unicom
Cernet
- http://ftp.sjtu.edu.cn/archlinux/ - Shanghai Jiaotong University
- http://mirrors.4.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn/archlinux/ (ipv4 only)
- http://mirrors.6.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn/archlinux/ (ipv6 only)
- http://mirror.lzu.edu.cn/archlinux/ - Lanzhou University
France
- http://delta.archlinux.fr/ - With Delta package support. Needs xdelta3 package from extra to run.
- http://mirror.soa1.org/archlinux
- ftp://mirror:mirror@mirror.soa1.org/archlinux
Germany
- http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/mirrors/archlinux/
- ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/mirrors/archlinux/
- http://ftp.u-tx.net/archlinux/
- ftp://ftp.u-tx.net/archlinux/
- http://mirror.michael-eckert.net/archlinux/
- http://linux.rz.rub.de/archlinux/
Hong Kong
India
Indonesia
- http://mirror.kavalinux.com/archlinux/ - only from Indonesia
- http://kambing.ui.ac.id/archlinux/
- http://repo.ukdw.ac.id/archlinux/
Iran
Italy
Japan
- http://ftp.nara.wide.ad.jp/pub/Linux/archlinux/ - NAra Institute of Science and Technology
- http://ftp.kddilabs.jp/Linux/packages/archlinux/
- http://srv2.ftp.ne.jp/Linux/packages/archlinux/
Kazakhstan
Malaysia
New Zealand
Poland
- ftp://ftp.icm.edu.pl/pub/Linux/dist/archlinux/ - ICM UW
- http://ftp.icm.edu.pl/pub/Linux/dist/archlinux/ - ICM UW
- rsync://ftp.icm.edu.pl/pub/Linux/dist/archlinux/ - ICM UW
Russia
- http://hatred.homelinux.net/archlinux/ - Vladivostok, without iso, with 3SPY project repos and mingw32 repo
- http://mirrors.krasinfo.ru/archlinux/ - Krasnoyarsk, Classica-Service Ltd
- http://mirror.yandex.ru/archlinux/ - Moscow, Yandex LLC
Singapore
South Africa
- http://ftp.leg.uct.ac.za/pub/linux/arch/ - University of Cape Town
- ftp://ftp.leg.uct.ac.za/pub/linux/arch/
- http://mirror.ufs.ac.za/archlinux/ - University of the Free State
- ftp://mirror.ufs.ac.za/os/linux/distros/archlinux/
- http://ftp.wa.co.za/pub/archlinux/ - Web Africa Networks
- ftp://ftp.wa.co.za/pub/archlinux/
- http://archlinux.mirror.ac.za - TENET - Tertiary Education and Research Network of South Africa
- ftp://archlinux.mirror.ac.za
South Korea
United States
- http://archlinux.linuxfreedom.com - Contains numerous ISO images but does not contain the ISO dated 2011.08.19
- http://mirror.clarkson.edu/archlinux/
- http://mirror.pointysoftware.net/archlinux/
- http://il.mirrors.linaxe.net/archlinux/ - Server location - Chicago, IL
Viet Nam
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