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rankmirrors — Rank a list of Pacman mirrors by connection and opening speed. Writes the new mirrorlist to `stdout`

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Problem

How to use the rankmirrors command: Rank a list of Pacman mirrors by connection and opening speed. Writes the new mirrorlist to stdout. More information: <https://manned.org/rankmirrors>.

Solution

rankmirrors — Rank a list of Pacman mirrors by connection and opening speed. Writes the new mirrorlist to stdout. More information: <https://manned.org/rankmirrors>.

Rank a mirror list:
rankmirrors {{/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist}}


Output only a given number of the top ranking servers:
rankmirrors -n {{number}} {{/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist}}


Be verbose when generating the mirrorlist:
rankmirrors {{[-v|--verbose]}} {{/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist}}


Test only a specific URL:
rankmirrors {{[-u|--url]}} {{url}}


Output only the response times instead of a full mirrorlist:
rankmirrors {{[-t|--times]}} {{/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist}}

Code Snippets

Rank a mirror list

rankmirrors {{/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist}}

Output only a given number of the top ranking servers

rankmirrors -n {{number}} {{/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist}}

Be verbose when generating the mirrorlist

rankmirrors {{[-v|--verbose]}} {{/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist}}

Test only a specific URL

rankmirrors {{[-u|--url]}} {{url}}

Output only the response times instead of a full mirrorlist

rankmirrors {{[-t|--times]}} {{/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist}}

Context

tldr-pages: linux/rankmirrors

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