Difference between revisions of "Repositories and Servers"

Revision as of 18:21, 17 December 2012

A particular feature of Manjaro is that in order to ensure stability, its own dedicated software servers and repositories

Automatically find best servers for the fastest downloads!

Pick a different different official Manjaro repository to download from.

Can't wait to use the latest bleeding-edge software? You don't have to!

Feeling Brave? Then use these repositories to potentially break your system!

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-The official Manjaro repositories (also known as mirrors) are hosted on Software Servers. Physically located throughout the world, these servers are responsible for receiving requests for software packages via the terminal and/or pacman-gui, and consequently delivering them to your system. There are therefore three primary factors that will determine how fast your downloads are:
+A particular feature of Manjaro is that in order to ensure stability, its own dedicated software servers and repositories
-* Your internet connection
-* The speed of the server itself, and
-* The proximity of the server to you (i.e. how close or how far away it is)
-Barring upgrading your internet package or switching providers, it is therefore potentially possible to improve the speed of downloads from the Manjaro repositories by selecting a different server to use. Servers are currently located in the following countries:
-* Brazil
-* France
-* Germany
-* Greece
-* United Kingdom
-* United States
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 * [[Rankmirrors to Set the Fastest Download Server|Use Rankmirrors to Set the Fastest Download Server]]
 : ''Automatically find best servers for the fastest downloads!''
 * [[Change to a Different Download Server]]
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 * [[Access the Testing Repositories]]
 : ''Can't wait to use the latest bleeding-edge software? You don't have to!''
 * [[Access the Unstable Repositories]]