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netselect-apt

Creates sources.list files for the fastest Debian mirrors.

It:

1. downloads the list of Debian mirrors from http://www.debian.org/mirror/mirrors_full using wget;
2. chooses the fastest servers using netselect;
3. tests the valid servers using curl if available.

The output file is written to OUTFILE.

Table of contents

1. TL;DR
2. Further readings
3. Sources

TL;DR

sudo netselect-apt --arch 'amd64' --country 'de' --outfile '/tmp/sources.list'
sudo netselect-apt --nonfree
sudo netselect-apt -nc 'nl'

Further readings

• man page

Sources

All the references in the further readings section, plus the following:

• How to find the fastest mirror in Debian and derivatives