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+layout: post
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+title: "Using reflector in Arch my way"
+category: [english]
+tags: [arch, linux, reflector, mirrors]
+---
+
+*Reflector is a tool that checks the most recently upgraded Arch Linux
+ mirrors and ranks them by speed and saves them to your mirrorlist.*
+
+**This is largely based on [ArchWiki page on reflector] which is licensed
+in [GNU Free Documentation License 1.3 or later].**
+
+[ArchWiki page on reflector]:https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Reflector
+[GNU Free Documentation License 1.3 or later]:http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html
+
+TL;DR commands:
+
+```
+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
+```
+
+(end of TL;DR and what you actually do)
+
+1. Install reflector itself, additional depedency of rsync to rank the
+   mirrors by speed, and url which you use in the second command
+2. to download my reflector.service
+    * 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.
+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 !