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There are two types of mirrors of Ubuntu: package archive mirrors, which mirror the packages that make up the distribution, including regular security update packages and release-cd-only mirrors. There are two types of mirrors of Ubuntu: package archive mirrors, which mirror the packages that make up the distribution, including regular security update packages and release-cd-only mirrors. In addition, if you run a very reliable package archive mirror in a country, you can request to be the '''Official Country Mirror''' for that country. This means that all installations of Ubuntu in that country will prefer to use your mirror rather than any other. If you wish to be an official country mirror, please email mirrors@ubuntu.com.
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Note that we don't have automatic mirror setup software in Warty, but this will be a feature goal for Hoary. Users of Hoary should automagically discover their nearest / best package mirror and use that.

== Mirrors ==

The following package archive mirrors are available:		 == Mirror-Mirrors ==

The following package archive mirrors are available, for you to mirror from, if you would rather mirror from a downstream mirror than from the master servers at Ubuntu:
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 * ![Australia] http://ftp.filearena.net/pub/ubuntu/
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 * ![Australia] rsync://rsync.filearena.net/ubuntu/
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 * ![Norway] http://mirror.trivini.no/ubuntu
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 * ![Norway] http://mirror.trivini.no/ubuntu-iso/
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 * ![United States] http://mirror.cc.vt.edu/pub/projects/ubuntu/
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If you set up a new mirror, please add it to this page and send contact information to mirrors@canonical.com. If you set up a new mirror, please add it to this page and send contact information to mirrors@ubuntu.com.

Archive

Ubuntu Mirror System

There are two types of mirrors of Ubuntu: package archive mirrors, which mirror the packages that make up the distribution, including regular security update packages and release-cd-only mirrors. In addition, if you run a very reliable package archive mirror in a country, you can request to be the Official Country Mirror for that country. This means that all installations of Ubuntu in that country will prefer to use your mirror rather than any other. If you wish to be an official country mirror, please email mirrors@ubuntu.com.

Package Archive Mirror Setup

The master package archive is available from:

An apt sources.list entry would look like this: 

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu warty main
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu warty-security main

Besides 'main', there are also 'restricted', 'universe' and 'multiverse' archives, which provide additional non-free and/or unsupported software packages. See http://www.ubuntulinux.org/ubuntu/components/ for more information.

Mirror-Mirrors

The following package archive mirrors are available, for you to mirror from, if you would rather mirror from a downstream mirror than from the master servers at Ubuntu:

If you set up a new mirror, send contact information to mirrors@canonical.com.

CD Images

Releases Only (recommended, smallest size but biggest help):

Daily (very large repository):

Testing (test releases only):

CD Image Mirrors

The following mirrors are available:

DVD Image Mirrors

The following mirrors are available:

If you set up a new mirror, please add it to this page and send contact information to mirrors@ubuntu.com.

Mirrors (last edited 2024-08-14 18:51:46 by cpete)