{"id":2737,"date":"2014-12-15T12:45:36","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T17:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/?p=2737"},"modified":"2014-12-15T13:07:51","modified_gmt":"2014-12-15T18:07:51","slug":"high-traffic-on-the-package-repositories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/?p=2737","title":{"rendered":"High traffic on the package repositories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our main repository packages.linuxmint.com isn&#8217;t currently able to serve connections to everybody. This can result in errors, timeouts and delays in apt-get, and in your update manager.<\/p>\n<p>Please switch to a mirror while we fix this situation:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>From the menu, open &#8220;Software Sources&#8221; (or type &#8220;mintsources&#8221; in a terminal)<\/li>\n<li>Type your password<\/li>\n<li>Click on the combo box beside &#8220;Main&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Select a server from the top of the list<\/li>\n<li>Click on &#8220;Apply&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Click on &#8220;Update the Cache&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linuxmint.com\/tmp\/blog\/2737\/mintsources.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.linuxmint.com\/tmp\/blog\/2737\/thumb_mintsources.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"426\" height=\"319\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Please accept our apologies for the inconvenience. Our traffic doubled since November and we&#8217;re now trying to set up a cluster of servers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our main repository packages.linuxmint.com isn&#8217;t currently able to serve connections to everybody. This can result in errors, timeouts and delays in apt-get, and in your update manager. Please switch to a mirror while we fix this situation: From the menu, open &#8220;Software Sources&#8221; (or type &#8220;mintsources&#8221; in a terminal) Type your password Click on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main-topics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2737"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2741,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2737\/revisions\/2741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}