apt-select

Speed up updates and upgrades by selecting a mirror with the lowest latency.

Features

• Gets list of Ubuntu mirrors
• Tests TCP latency to each mirror
• Prints round trip time, status, and bandwidth of the fastest mirrors in a ranked list
• Generates new sources.list file with user chosen mirror

Dependencies

• Python HTML parser, BeautifulSoup

####Install BeautifulSoup

Python 2

sudo apt-get install python-bs4

Python 3

sudo apt-get install python3-bs4

Usage

Run:

./apt-select.py

For a list of arguments and options, do:

./apt-select.py --help

####Update apt

After the new sources.list file is generated, the update script can be used to backup and replace the current file:

./update.sh