synaptic reload takes forever

[David Fox]

On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 12:30 AM, Brendan Miller<catphive at catphive.net> wrote:
> Downloading and installing packages works in a reasonable amount of
> time, but reloading takes at least an hour, and synaptic completely
> freazes up during that time.

Why do you have a debian unstable repository on a ubuntu system?

Is the slowdown only happening because of the conversion? I wonder
what could be happening, what processing has to be done at that stage.

What happens during a normal aptitude update? I switched over to the
command line method early on, simply because the gui package manager
at that time (mandrake) was just too dog-slow for my pokey (at that
time) little system, consumed too many resources, etc. It turned me
off graphical package managers. Still, I would think that today's more
modern systems wouldn't have that issue, but I've just gotten used to
the command line.



-- 
thanks for letting me change the magnetic patterns on your hard disk.