Select different country mirror than "locale"

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Good day,

I'm installing Ubuntu instances in Germany or France datacenters, but with the locale/etc. set for South Africa. Now the (hyper intelligent) Ubuntu installer (contrary to the Debian installer) doesn't allow me to set the mirror/country to use for the package downloads, which makes the installations quite slow (other than setting up a mirror myself and point every installation to that one, but that would be cumbersome for various reasons)

SO, how do I tell the installer to let me pick the mirror I want to use contrary to my locale/country settings?

Yes... should be marked duplicate ;( – Hvisage May 11 '16 at 15:52 — Hvisage, May 11 '16 at 15:52

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered May 04 '16 at 10:04

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you can install ubuntu without using updates and after installation change mirrors in /etc/apt/sources.list or update-manager and you can use update-locale and locale-gen fr_FR fr_FR.UTF-8 as expemple to change your settings.

answered May 04 '16 at 10:04

Aymen Amairia

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Doesn't help, I guess the answer is then: "Sorry, can't be done at installation time, installation of ubuntu servers are only to be done by id-ten-t personnel"? – Hvisage May 04 '16 at 11:56

Select different country mirror than "locale"

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