On the Debian mailing-list this has been dicussed here http://www.mail- archive.com/[email protected]/msg245661.html.
One solution that helped me a bit (just one or two seconds faster) is the following (taken from ): 1. $ sudo su 1. % for x in /var/lib/apt/lists/*Packages;do dpkg --merge-avail "$x";done 2. Rebuild /info (to work against fragmentaton; for me this took +3 minutes!) % cd /var/lib/dpkg/ % cp -a info info.tmp % mv info info.orig % mv info.tmp info 3. Finally: % dpkg --clear-avail _and_ reboot (for whatever reason ...) On the mailinglist above there was also a pointer to http://people.debian.org/~seanius/dpkg-sqlite/ for a proof-of-concept sqlite powered cache, which would fix the slowness problems. -- "Reading Database" takes too long https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/398870 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
