Introduction
Today, most software for Ubuntu are downloaded using a
package manager (
apt-get) which retrieves packages from an official mirror.
TeraSwitch
maintains up-to-date copies (a mirror) of all the official packages in
our datacenter. By adjusting your configuration to use this mirror, your
software updates will happen even faster.
Prerequisites
Before you begin this guide you’ll need the following:
- One Linux VPS running Ubuntu 18.04
Step 1 — Editing sources.list
Your Ubuntu installation stores its list of mirrors in
/etc/apt/sources.list.
If you like, you can create a backup copy of this file first:
sudo cp /etc/apt/sources.list{,.backup}
This creates a copy of
sources.list and saves it as
sources.list.backup.
Find and Replace
Next, run these commands:
sudo sed -i 's|http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu|http://mirror.pit.teraswitch.com/ubuntu|g' /etc/apt/sources.list
sudo sed -i 's|http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu|http://mirror.pit.teraswitch.com/ubuntu|g' /etc/apt/sources.list
sudo sed -i 's|http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu|http://mirror.pit.teraswitch.com/ubuntu|g' /etc/apt/sources.list
This will search
/etc/apt/sources.list for any instance of the original mirrors, and replace them with the TeraSwitch mirror.
Step 2 — Update Packge List
Now you can update your list of available packages by typing:
sudo apt-get update
Output:
Hit:1 http://mirror.pit.teraswitch.com/ubuntu bionic InRelease
Get:2 http://mirror.pit.teraswitch.com/ubuntu bionic-updates InRelease [88.7 kB]
Get:3 http://mirror.pit.teraswitch.com/ubuntu bionic-security InRelease [88.7 kB]
...
Conclusion
In
this article you configured your VPS to use TeraSwitch’s official
Ubuntu mirrors. Now any packages that you install from the official
repositories can finish even faster.
Next, consider running
sudo apt-get upgrade to rapidly upgrade your packages to their latest versions.
