Mirrors¶
Overview¶
PureOS package repositories are distributed throughout the world using mirrors in order to provide users with redundancy and better access to software archives. We mirror our packages as well as our download directory. We cooperate with organizations that share our values and who have demonstrated that they can provide high availability access to our repositories. Other mirrors may exist but they have not been vetted by Purism. Using a nearby mirror will likely speed up your download, and also reduce the load on our central servers and on the Internet as a whole.
List¶
Region |
Site |
Architectures |
|---|---|---|
USA: East Coast |
AMD64, aarch64 |
Configuring a mirror¶
You can use the GNOME Software tool or a terminal to configure a mirror.
Command line¶
First, ensure that you have all the packages you will need for downloading from HTTPS-protected software repositories:
# apt install openssl ca-certificates apt-transport-https
Most of those packages are likely already on your local system.
Modify your /etc/apt/sources.list file and add your mirror:
# deb http://repo.pureos.net/pureos byzantium main
# deb http://repo.pureos.net/pureos byzantium-updates main
# deb http://repo.pureos.net/pureos byzantium-security main
deb https://mirror.fsf.org/pureos byzantium main
In this example, the main PureOS repository for byzantium is commented out.
The mirror is the URL at jevincanders.net; you can use the other mirrors (sonic.net and linux.pizza) the same way.
Once you have updated your /etc/apt/sources.list, you should be able to simply apt update and you’ll get up to date packages from a mirror closer to you.