mirror.xcobean.co.ke

Free, open source software mirror for East Africa. Low latency from Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, and the region.

12
Repositories
2 TB
Storage
Nairobi
Location
Nightly
Sync Frequency

Available Repositories

Debian
Stable + security
Ubuntu
Noble 24.04 + Jammy 22.04
Rocky Linux
Rocky 9
AlmaLinux
AlmaLinux 9
Fedora
Current releases
openSUSE
Leap + Tumbleweed
Alpine Linux
Latest stable
Arch Linux
Rolling release
VyOS
Network OS packages
OPNsense
Firewall packages
pfSense
Firewall packages
PyPI
Top Python packages

Usage Examples

Ubuntu / Debian

sudo sed -i 's|http://archive.ubuntu.com|https://mirror.xcobean.co.ke|g' /etc/apt/sources.list
sudo apt update

Rocky / AlmaLinux

sudo sed -i 's|^mirrorlist=|#mirrorlist=|g' /etc/yum.repos.d/rocky*.repo
sudo sed -i 's|^#baseurl=http://dl.rockylinux.org|baseurl=https://mirror.xcobean.co.ke/rocky|g' /etc/yum.repos.d/rocky*.repo
sudo dnf makecache

Alpine

echo "https://mirror.xcobean.co.ke/alpine/latest-stable/main" > /etc/apk/repositories
echo "https://mirror.xcobean.co.ke/alpine/latest-stable/community" >> /etc/apk/repositories
apk update