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NAME

nala-fetch - Fetch fast mirrors to improve download speed

SYNOPSIS

nala fetch [ --options ]

DESCRIPTION

nala will fetch fast mirrors to improve download speed.

nala parses the following files to find mirrors:

For Debian https://mirror-master.debian.org/status/Mirrors.masterlist

For Ubuntu https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archivemirrors-rss

For Devuan https://pkgmaster.devuan.org/mirror_list.txt

The resulting file of mirrors will be located at /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nala-sources.list

When selecting mirrors in the interactive display, you can pass a comma or space separated list.

Examples:

Specific List:

1,2,3,4 Selects mirrors 1, 2, 3 and 4

Comma and spaces may be mixed in the input. nala will parse it all the same.

1,3 , 4 5 will select mirrors 1, 3, 4 and 5

Range: 1..5 will select mirrors 1 through 5

Even Range: 0..1..5 selects 2 and 4

Odd Range: 1..1..5 selects 1, 3 and 5

OPTIONS

--debian

Instead of auto detecting the distro and release, you can use this switch to specify a Debian release.

nala fetch --debian sid

--ubuntu

Much like --debian but for Ubuntu

nala fetch --ubuntu jammy

--devuan

Much like --debian but for Devuan

nala fetch --devuan unstable

--https-only

fetch will only provide https mirrors.

--auto

Run fetch uninteractively. Will still prompt for overwriting the sources file if it exists.

--fetches

This controls the number of mirrors to fetch.

With --auto this will default to 3 mirrors, and write as many mirrors as you specify to the file.

In the interactive version of fetch , this will default to 16 mirrors. Instead of controlling the amount of mirrors that will be written, it controls the amount of mirrors you are shown to select from.

--sources

Add the source repos for the mirror, if it exists.

By default nala will not include the source repos.

--non-free

Add contrib and non-free components of the Debian mirrors.

This switch does nothing on Ubuntu systems.

--debug

Print helpful information for solving issues. If you're submitting a bug report try running the command again with --debug and providing the output to the devs, it may be helpful.

-c , --country

Specify your country to limit the mirror search using the 2 letter ISO country code.

This option can be specified multiple times to increase the pool.

Example:

nala fetch -c US -c CA

-v , --verbose

Disable scrolling text and print extra information

-h , --help

Shows this man page.