Wow, I did the command, nano came up with the endeavoros repo mirror file already there. How did it do that? Further, it goes further down the page then the part you copied and pasted… stuff below vietnam. Haven’t committed yet, just marveling…
Yes I used cat, can see the file, it just has all of the double pound signs in front of all the entries, so If I use nano to remove a few of the pound signs and save should fix right?
Only in front of the word “Server”, not in front of the country name. For endeavouros-mirrorlist, they are not commented out by default, as far as I can see.
Unless you’ve ranked the mirrorlists updates are going to be painfully slow.
To rank them, use rate-mirrrors, like I mentioned above. You can make a backup of those two mirror lists first, so you don’t have to bother with nano again:
O.K. ran both rate -mirror commands without problems, ran yay, it searched the system, ran through a lot of mirrors looked like, and other things, ended with:
:: Synchronizing package databases…
core is up to date
extra is up to date
community is up to date
multilib is up to date
endeavouros is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade…
there is nothing to do
:: Searching databases for updates…
:: Searching AUR for updates…
→ Flagged Out Of Date AUR Packages: python-pyparted
there is nothing to do
You can now forget about mirrorlists until you notice that your updates are really slow.
Then just use rate-mirrors again:
rate-mirrors arch | sudo tee /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
rate-mirrors endeavouros | sudo tee /etc/pacman.d/endeavouros-mirrorlist
If you get .pacnew files for mirrorlists, you can ignore them. For other packages, however, do not ignore .pacnew files, but try to figure them out manually (ask if you’re unsure).
Thank you for your help and patience, have only had this system up for about 2 1/2 weeks, so didn’t have much to work with on the knowledge side. I’m going to print this thread out and keep it somewhere…