Re: Why is installing software....so....darn....slow?

On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 18:03:12 -0700, Randy Brick MacKenna wrote:

On Sep 28, 8:42 pm, Pétur Ingi Egilsson <pe...@xxxxx> wrote:
On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 17:04:06 -0700, Randy Brick MacKenna wrote:
I'm new to Linux and to openSUSE. One thing I noticed is that
anytime I download a RPM, it takes next to forever to install.

First, it spends about 5-10 minutes "resolving dependencies". Then
it spends another 5 minutes "preparing software". Then it installs
the software, sitting at 0% completion for another 5-10 minutes --
and finally jumping to 99% completion, where it will usually sit for
another few minutes until it finally completes.

I mean, compared to a WinXP system, where downloading a .exe self-
installer and waiting about 10 seconds for it to complete, this is
excruciating.

I'm not installing complex stuff, either. Simple utilities, for
example. It seems that everything takes at least 15-20 minutes to
complete.

Is this normal?

-Randy

Hi Randy.

Certainly this is not normal if your system is > than the recommenced
hardware requirements.

How much RAM do you have?
What kind of processor?

It's a brand new system: AMD Athlon 2.4GhZ processor, 1GB memory. Fresh
download/install of openSUSE 10.2

Everything else on the system seems to run fine -- all the applications
seem pretty fast. It is just the execution of an RPM that is very, very
slow. I just installed the plugins for gkrellm -- it took about 20
minutes to complete.

If there is something wrong, what should I look at to try to fix?

Thanks,
Randy

Hi

This is weird.

Go down to runlevel 3 ( init 3 ) and reinstall the rpm ( rpm -e
RPMNAME.rpm to delete it. rpm -ihv RPMNAME.rpm to install it again ) ..
does that work?

If all fails, you could try to upgrade to openSuSE 10.3 RC1 ( i've been
using it for couple of days and it seams to be stable )

.

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