Hello fist time poster for me, just installed Endeavour OS a few days ago and I’m trying to fix some issues (black screen, audio glitches, etc.)
However to start I need to know how to use the terminal and have reflector run a full update to continue.
At this moment when I try to run "reflector --latest 5 --sort rate --save /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
" it fails with the following message “error: permission denied”
Any tips on how to generate a post will be appreciated, following the webpage below to “fix” reflector.
https://man.archlinux.org/man/reflector.1#EXAMPLES
P.S. don’t know how to back up tools/info but if needed I can do it and clear whatever is needed
Try prefixing reflector with sudo, so sudo reflector ... to run it with root permissions.
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thank you for replying, it fails for me on step “reflector --latest 5 --sort rate --save /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist” so searching online it seems that the solution is to give more time to establish connection, since my connection is 1Gb/s I wanted to use the following command but the delay it’s not being updated “sudo reflector --download-timeout 60”
in short, want to change time from 5s to 60s
Use the Welcome to update your mirrors and to change download timeout from 5s to 60s is likely not going to go well.
… and Welcome to the forums! 
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Thank you for the warm welcome, I believe the welcome terminal handled it and I appreciate the guidance
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