Graham Smith wrote:
On Friday 06 October 2006 15:12, Basil Chupin wrote:
Even though I am on broadband, every time KDE rpms get upgraded I end up with having downloads done at as low as 1Bps - yes *1* byte/sec, or simply hanging/timing out. And when this is the throughput for a RPM as small as ~45MB then the whole upgrading exercise becomes a damn farce.
Well, I'm on broadband, too, here in the USA, and I see exactly the same thing. I've found that when zen collapses with these errors, I get better results by DE-selecting everything, then selecting a few things at a time. For instance, this morning, I had 3 bind updates, which I selected together, then kdsbase3, kdevelop3, and kdevelop3-doc together, then a dozen or so of the kdegraphics stuff. All went smoothly, after failing twice. The first two tries took nearly an hour each (I wasn't actually using the computer at the time), and the 3-part success took less than half an hour. No, I don't know whether it was just blind luck that the server got free for the last try, but I do know that I've seen this same phenomenon many times. Most of my successful large or kde updates are now piecemeal like this. -- John Perry