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

=?iso-8859-1?b?UOl0dXI=?= Ingi Egilsson <petur@xxxxx> writes:

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.


If your 5 to 10 min is correct ( rather than the 5-10 sec I suspect you
really mean-- get out your watch next time and actually time it)
Then you have problems. Far too small memory. Far too slow a computer.
A hard disk which is on its last legs and needs to reread itself 10 times
each time it reads something.


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?

No


-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?




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