How To Install mirrorbits on Ubuntu
Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )
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Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mirrorbits on Ubuntu.
What is mirrorbits
mirrorbits is:
Mirrorbits is a geographical download redirector written in Go for distributing files efficiently across a set of mirrors. It offers a simple and economic way to create a Content Delivery Network layer using a pure software stack. It is primarily designed for the distribution of large-scale Open-Source projects with a lot of traffic.
Main Features:
- Blazing fast, can reach 8K QPS on a single laptop
- Easy to deploy and maintain, everything is packed in a single binary
- Automatic synchronization with the mirrors over rsync or FTP
- Response can be either JSON or HTTP redirect
- Support partial repositories
- Complete checksum / size control
- Realtime monitoring and reports
- Disable misbehaving mirrors without human intervention
- Realtime decision making based on location, AS number and defined rules
- Smart load-balancing over multiple mirrors in the same area to avoid hotspots
- Ability to adjust the weight of each mirror
- Limit access to a country, region or ASN for any mirror
- Clustering (multiple mirrorbits instances)
- High-availability using redis-sentinel
- Automatically fix timezone offsets for broken mirrors
- Realtime statistics per file / mirror / date
- Realtime reconfiguration
- Seamless binary upgrade (aka zero downtime upgrade)
- Mirmon support
- Full IPv6 support
- more…
There are three methods to install mirrorbits on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install mirrorbits Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install mirrorbits using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mirrorbits
Install mirrorbits Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mirrorbits using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mirrorbits
Install mirrorbits Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install mirrorbits using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mirrorbits
How To Uninstall mirrorbits on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the mirrorbits package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mirrorbits
Uninstall mirrorbits And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mirrorbits and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mirrorbits
Remove mirrorbits Configurations and Data
To remove mirrorbits configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mirrorbits
Remove mirrorbits configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mirrorbits configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mirrorbits
Dependencies
mirrorbits have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mirrorbits package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.