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 rank, round trip time, status, and bandwidth of the 5 fastest mirrors
• 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

From inside the directory, run:

./apt-select.py

####Update apt

After the new sources.list file is generated, use the update script to safely copy and replace your current file:

./update.sh