Note to self: don’t even attempt to use apt-get or aptitude during the week of a major distro release from Ubuntu. It’s not worth the pain of 8KB/s download times over a massive 1MB/s pipe.
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10.19.07 | 3 Comments
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Change your /etc/apt/sources.list to anything but us.archive.ubuntu.com.
Here is a good list:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&as_qdr=all&q=+site%3A*.archive.ubuntu.com
Even the localised mirror for me (Australia) was terribly slow until about yesterday. At the end of the day it would be worth the wait. I usually do clean installs each time as I like having a freshly installed system.
I’ve never had a problem with it either.. The Aussie and UK ones have been fine.