Configure closest mirror with netselect-apt in Debian


The default installation is configured to download the packages from a remote server that is sometimes saturated. The best thing is to call the closest mirror and that can be done with the *netselect-apt* package, which can be installed as usual:

sudo apt install -y netselect-apt

Now we invoke it with *sudo netselect-apt version*, where *version* is the version we currently have (jessie, stretch).

Notice that this solution **does not support Raspbian**, as it has its own mirrors and this application will not update your */etc/apt/sources.list*. Although **you can introduce it by hand**. For Spain we could write:

# Comment the current mirror
sudo sed -i '/deb http:\/\/m/s/^/#/' /etc/apt/sources.list
# Add the Spain mirror to /etc/apt/sources.list
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://ftp.cica.es/mirrors/Linux/raspbian/raspbian/ jessie main contrib non-free rpi" >> /etc/apt/sources.list'

I leave you the link with all the mirrors below.

Link: [raspbian.org/RaspbianMirrors](http://www.raspbian.org/RaspbianMirrors)