Update locate_mirror

[enoch85]

Replace with a more modern take on it https://github.com/vegardit/fast-apt-mirror.sh

[enoch85]

cc @aaaskew Please test.

[enoch85]

This is now tested and works, will merge to sort the bug and improve later.

[aaaskew]

This has worked for me in Ubuntu 24 but my old upgraded to Ubuntu 22 system did something weird.

I am not sure if this is due to network issues or what it downloaded but it appears it tried and failed to upgrade the sources.list (fortunately)

This is what I saw:

[enoch85]

Hmm, maybe we should limit it to Ubuntu 24 then... Can you please try again?

Also, you have backups in etc/apt/ ;)

[aaaskew]

Tried again with Ubuntu 24 and 22 and it works for me with the re-test. I am assuming the error was due to a DNS or download failure that disappeared on retry. The sources.list did not actually get changed when that screenshot occured. The script just went a little mad. I assume it is due to some output being taken as what should be displayed in the dialog but that text is actually the script itself.

So consider the re-test ok for me.

[enoch85]

Nice! Thanks for confirming. 👍