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Unable to start reflector service

20 July 2021, 00:22:04

Hello guys
I'm new to Artix,I've been using Arch for 2 years!
I have installed Artix today and I'm quite impressed about the speed and the simplicity of it! I came across a little problem when starting the reflector service.I used this command to enable it:
sudo ln -s /etc/runit/sv/reflector.service  /run/runit/service/

for starting the service , I used the command bellow, but I got this error ( see picture bellow )

 sudo sv up reflector.service

Can someone help me please to fix the problem!

Re: Unable to start reflector service

Reply #1 – 20 July 2021, 00:57:23

First of all, there isn't a service you can use to start reflector in openrc, runit, nor s6. That is why it says it doesn't exist.

The reason it doesn't exist is because reflector only works with Arch Linux and its repos which is why it is not in the Artix Linux repos at all.

The closest software you will find is rankmirrors which is in the package pacman-contrib which does work with Artix.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/mirrors#Sorting_mirrors

Re: Unable to start reflector service

Reply #2 – 20 July 2021, 01:19:22

Thank you for the heads-up Chris!