Re: apt-get connect takes forever, download instantaneous
* This one time, at band camp, Brian Nelson said:
>
> Try using a local mirror.
>
> http://www.debian.org/misc/README.mirrors
>
Can I also suggest looking at 'netselect-apt' (package netselect and
only in woody+ IIRC)
If you change to /etc/apt, backup sources.list, then try 'netselect-apt
[unstable|testing|stable}'.
Netselect will then download the mirrors list and work out which one is
the fastest from you current location and give you a sources.list for
it.
Also works for different arch's (worked on my sparc, i386 and arm
machines).
HTH
Greeno
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