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title: "Using reflector in Arch my way"
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tags: [arch, linux, reflector, mirrors]
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---
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_Reflector is a tool that checks the most recently upgraded Arch Linux
mirrors and ranks them by speed and saves them to your mirrorlist._
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**This is largely based on [ArchWiki page on reflector] which is licensed
in [GNU Free Documentation License 1.3 or later].**
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[archwiki page on reflector]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Reflector
[gnu free documentation license 1.3 or later]: https://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html
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TL;DR commands:
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<pre>
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sudo pacman --needed -S reflector rsync curl
cd /etc/systemd/system/
sudo curl -LO https://github.com/Mikaela/shell-things/raw/master/etc/systemd/system/reflector.service
sudo systemctl enable reflector
sudo systemctl start reflector
sudo pacman -Syu
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</pre>
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(end of TL;DR and what you actually do)
1. Install reflector itself, additional depedency of rsync to rank the
mirrors by speed, and curl which you use in the second command
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2. to download my reflector.service
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- differences to Arch Wiki version: requires network-online.target
so you don't have to enable any wait-online services and uses only
https mirrors.
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3. enable the service so it's ran on boot
4. start it now so it checks the most recently updated mirrors and
saves them to mirrorlist.
5. Check for updates & install them.
Do check the service itself at https://github.com/Mikaela/shell-things/raw/master/etc/systemd/system/reflector.service !
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Bonus: edit `/etc/pacman.conf` and add the line:
```
NoExtract = etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
```
so when you upgrade you won't get useless mirrorlist.pacnew file. **NOTE:**
it's intented to be `etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist` without the initial `/`,
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because it's _relative_, not _absolute_, path.