For Debian Sid / Wheezy / Squeeze, netselect-apt is a tool that finds out which is the nearest debian mirror and creates a sources.list file in your home directory ($HOME), that you can use to replace the /etc/apt/sources.list file.
The netselect-apt tools is available for Debian only, I have tried to install it on Ubuntu, but with no success.
So, this is how you install netselect-apt on Debian Systems:
$ sudo apt-get install netselect-apt
Find the fastest mirror:
$ netselect-apt
Use the fastest mirror:
$ sudo mv /etc/apt/sources.list{,.bak}
$ sudo cp ~/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list
netselect-apt downloads a list of all mirrors from the Debian website. Then checks which server is nearer to your server. And finally it creates a sources.list file in your current directory.
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