🔍 Find Apt repository mirrors for Ubuntu

You can use find-mirrors.sh 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 & arm64)
• RISC-V (riscv64)
• PPC (ppc64el)
• IBM Z (s390x)

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 connections that the script makes	4

Here's the syntax:

$ curl -Ls "$URL" | bash -s $ARCH $DISTRO $REPOSITORY $PROTOCOL $JOBS

If you want to find alternatives for arm64 architectures while checking 6 repositories concurrently, you can do this:

$ curl -Ls "$URL" | bash -s arm64 focal main http 6

You can also use environment variables instead:

$ export ARCH=arm64 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"
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