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layout: post
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comments: true
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title: "Using reflector in Arch my way"
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category: [english]
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tags: [arch, linux, reflector, mirrors]
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redirect_from:
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- /reflector.html
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- /arch-reflector.html
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- /antergos-reflector.html
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- /english/2015/10/09/arch-reflector.html
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---
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_Reflector is a tool that checks the most recently upgraded Arch Linux
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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
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in [GNU Free Documentation License 1.3 or later].**
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[archwiki page on reflector]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Reflector
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[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
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cd /etc/systemd/system/
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sudo curl -LO https://github.com/Mikaela/shell-things/raw/master/etc/systemd/system/reflector.service
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sudo systemctl enable reflector
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sudo systemctl start reflector
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sudo pacman -Syu
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</pre>
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(end of TL;DR and what you actually do)
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1. Install reflector itself, additional depedency of rsync to rank the
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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
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so you don't have to enable any wait-online services and uses only
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https mirrors.
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3. enable the service so it's ran on boot
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4. start it now so it checks the most recently updated mirrors and
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saves them to mirrorlist.
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5. Check for updates & install them.
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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:
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```
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NoExtract = etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
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```
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so when you upgrade you won't get useless mirrorlist.pacnew file. **NOTE:**
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it's intented to be `etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist` without the initial `/`,
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because it's _relative_, not _absolute_, path.
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