¶ How to install Rate Mirrors
You can install Rate Mirrors with
sudo pacman -S refresh-mirrors
¶ How to use Rate Mirrors
Here are several of the ways you can use Rate Mirrors on RebornOS.
¶ Desktop entry
Open the Refresh Mirrors app. The text and icon may look like the below image:
Enter your password at the prompt and the rate-mirrors tool will run on a terminal with pre-selected options. In the end, it will refresh your Arch Linux and RebornOS mirrors to provide you the fastest update/install speed you can get.
¶ RebornOS Welcome
Launch the RebornOS Welcome application, Click on the Utilities tab on the bottom-left, and click on the Refresh Pacman Mirrors button as shown below:
Enter your password at the prompt and the rate-mirrors tool will run on a terminal with pre-selected options. In the end, it will refresh your Arch Linux and RebornOS mirrors to provide you the fastest install/update speed you can get.
¶ Systemd service
Just like how reflector does, we offer a Systemd service if you would like to run rate-mirrors every time you boot. to enable it, run the command
sudo systemctl enable refresh-mirrors.service
If you would also like to run the tool once now while also enabling it to run at boot, run
sudo systemctl enable --now refresh-mirrors.service
Enabling the systemd service using the above commands will run the rate-mirrors tool every time you boot, with pre-selected options. In the end, it will refresh your Arch Linux and RebornOS mirrors to provide you the fastest update/install speed you can get.
¶ From the terminal
Run the rate-mirrors command to refresh RebornOS mirrors. Below is an example:
sudo rate-mirrors --concurrency=16 --per-mirror-timeout=3000 --allow-root --save=/etc/pacman.d/reborn-mirrorlist rebornos
Run the rate-mirrors command to refresh Arch Linux mirrors. Below is an example:
sudo rate-mirrors --protocol=https --allow-root --save=/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist arch