My kde plasma to over 2 hours to finish today Sept 8 2020. I tried terminal thinking
i would speed things up but did not. So used software update to do the install.
I do not use the computer during an up grade. Fortunately I have a spare to use.
Welcome to the forum!
I’m afraid the time it takes to update your system depends on many different things…:
- the speed of your internet connection
- the speed of the mirrors you’re downloading the packages from
- the amount of packages you have installed that need updating
- whether your main drive is an HDD or an SSD
- the amount of RAM you have
- how many CPU cores you have
- whether you have any AUR packages that need being rebuilt
- et al
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The Manjaro kde computer today had the same updates as the kde Manjaro yesterday
that took so long. Todays computer went really fast, so it must be a different mirror?
Can be, it is even possible that some servers are even down for a while. I found that using pacman-mirrors --status
before updating is very useful
Local mirror status for stable branch
Mirror #1 OK 00:09 Germany https://manjaro.moson.org/
Mirror #2 OK 00:19 Germany https://mirror.netzspielplatz.de/manjaro/packages/
Mirror #3 OK 00:09 Germany https://mirror.alpix.eu/manjaro/
Mirror #4 OK 00:19 France http://kibo.remi.lu/
Mirror #5 OK 00:09 Denmark https://www.uex.dk/public/manjaro/
Mirror #6 OK 00:10 United_States https://repo.ialab.dsu.edu/manjaro/
Mirror #7 OK 00:07 Brazil https://www.caco.ic.unicamp.br/manjaro/
If half of mirrors are temporary down “---
” or respond slow, then just refresh mirrors list
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Thanks for the info! Appreciated!
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