Oh sorry friend, the message I wrote above was also for you too.
Although from what I see it seems that the package is called rate-mirrors.
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rate-mirrors is already in enos’ repo. No need to install it from AUR.
$ pacman -Ss rate-mirrors
endeavouros/rate-mirrors 0.16.4-1 [installed]
Everyday-use client-side map-aware mirror ranking tool
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Heres a bit more about it
To install
yay -S rate-mirrors
See @pebcak answer above for how to install, I was unaware it was in the endeavour repos
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Sorry, I’m still learning how to use the terminal and I don’t know much, but is this normal?
If I’m not mistaken, it seems to be an official EndeavourOS package, but I don’t have it (I just updated everything with yay).
Sorry I didn’t see this, I see, I thought this had to be installed automatically, thanks I’ll install it now!
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If you want to know whether a package is installed, then use yay -Qs package_name, you can also see it with yay -Ss package_name, then at the end of the line it says “(installed)” (see code block), however, it can become confusing if there are a lot of results displayed. yay -Qi is wrong in this case 
[pycrk@eno ~]$ LANG=C yay -Ss rate-mirror
aur/pacman-mirrors-helper-git r94.f5340a4-1 (+0 0.00)
A wrapper simplifying repository management and mirror selection using the rate-mirrors tool.
aur/rate-mirrors-bin 0.16.4-1 (+15 0.14)
Everyday-use client-side map-aware mirror ranking tool - pre-built with musl
aur/rate-mirrors 0.16.4-1 (+23 1.38) (Installed)
Everyday-use client-side map-aware mirror ranking tool
endeavouros/rate-mirrors 0.16.4-1 (2.7 MiB 8.2 MiB) (Installed)
Everyday-use client-side map-aware mirror ranking tool
[pycrk@eno ~]$ LANG=C yay -Qs rate-mirror
local/rate-mirrors 0.16.4-1
Everyday-use client-side map-aware mirror ranking tool
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Thank you very much friend, I’ll write it down right now in my text file!
(I use a text file where I write down all the commands that I am learning in our forum, along with a short description, so I can access them quickly)
By the way, this is not related to the thread but, in my text document I have this noted:
yay -S steam
yay -S blender
yay -S gimp
yay -S qbittorrent
yay -S jdownloader2
yay -S librewolf-bin
yay -S torbrowser-launcher
yay -S p7zip
yay -S plasma-systemmonitor
yay -S partitionmanager
yay -S kcm-wacomtablet
yay -S bottom
yay -S clamav
yay -S clamtk
yay -S proton-ge-custom-bin
yay -S protontricks
yay -S wine-staging
yay -S winetricks
yay -S lutris
yay -S bottles
yay -S kvantum
yay -S flatpak
If I ever need to format EndeavourOS, or install it on a new PC in the future, would it be a bad idea to install all of these programs in one command, or is it better to install them separately as I have noted?
I’m not sure if so many programs should be installed at the same time or they may create some kind of incompatibility during installation, etc.
Take a look at the following threads, there is useful information about it.
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I adopted your settings and also got an error
This is due to the fact that mirrors could not be found given all those countries and settings. Either settings need to be loosened or countries changed/added in order to get results.
And as mentioned here, rate-mirrors is a good app for ranking mirrors.
If rate-mirrors is not installed, welcome will not show it.
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You could install many programs in one step.
If you have that list in a script, then I’d add command
yay
as first in the list to make sure system is updated.
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